Golden Rose Synagogue (Dnipro)

Golden Rose Synagogue
Religion
Affiliation	Orthodox Judaism
Status	aktiv
Location
Location	Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
Architecture
Architect(s)	Frank Meisler
Style	Modern style
Completed	1999

The Golden Rose Synagogue ( Днепропетровская Хоральная Синагога «Золотая Роза» ) is a synagogue located on Kotsyubinskiy Street in Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine .

History

The Golden Rose synagogue was built 150 years ago in Dnipropetrovsk, in former times called Yeketerinoslav/Jekaterinoslaw/Екатериносла́в. In 1924 the building was used as a workers' club and a warehouse. In 1996 the building was returned to the Jewish community. In 1999 started the reconstruction, designed by a local Jewish architect, A. Dolnik. Frank Meisler, an Israeli artist, disigned the foyer, the prayer hall and the Holy Ark. The Jewish community wanted to built adjacent to the synagogue a Jewish Museum called "Tkumah" (rebirth) used also as a community center with a library, soup kitchen, class-rooms and offices. The Director of the Jewish Community of Dnepropetrovsk is Vyacheslav Brez. The Chief Rabbi of Dnepropetrovsk is Shmuel Kaminetzky, who is also a leading member of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine[1][2][3].

The Golden Rose Choral Synagogue stands on Sholom Aleichem street in Dnipropetrovsk. Used as a warehouse dur-ing the Soviet period, it was returned to the Jewish community in 1996. In place of the Magen David, Soviet authorities had affixed the seal of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics above the portico. The lobby in the synagogue is modern and light. Various alcoves show sacred texts and list donors. The doorway to the right in this photo leads to the street. The entrance to the sanctuary is to the left, under the semicircular in-dentation; the indentation houses the Golden Rose sculpture shown in a photo on the following page. A representation of golden roses, designed and fabricated by the Israeli artist Frank Meisler and set against a background of Jerusalem stone, stands above the main entrance into the sanctuary. Mr. Meisler’s work is very popular in Ukraine . A small rotunda between the lobby and sanctuary features the first phrase of the most important prayer in Judaism. The first word of the Sh’ma Yisroel prayer is in Hebrew at left. The first word of the same prayer in Russian is at right. The two versions continue around the rotunda until the last words in Russian and Hebrew meet on the opposite side. The synagogue shows the modern design of the synagogue interior. The sanctuary seats a total of 340 individuals.The doors to the Aron kodesh, the Holy Ark in which the Torahs are stored, bear a replication of the Ten Commandments. The doors were designed and fabricated by Frank Meisler

The Holy Ark