Hasidic Synagogue (Sadagora)

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Hasidic synagogue around 1914

The Hasidic Synagogue in Sadagora , a district of the Ukrainian city ​​of Chernivtsi , was built from 1864 to 1881. After years of decline after World War II , it was restored in 2016. She is also known under the name Rebbes Klois .

history

The Hasidic Rabbi Israel Friedmann came to Sadagora in 1842, where he established his court. Shortly before his death in 1850, he decreed that a large synagogue should be built. This was done by his son Abraham Jakob Friedmann and the construction was completed in 1881.

Already after the First World War the importance of the miracle rabbis and with it the place decreased. After World War II and the murder of most of the Jews, Sadagora came to the Soviet Union . The authorities used the building as a metal factory. Later it became more and more dilapidated. Thanks to the efforts and donations, especially from Hasidic Jews around the world, restoration work began in the 2010s. In 2016 the synagogue was reopened in its old glory.

architecture

The building is made of red clinker bricks in the Moorish style with castle-like battlements and towers.

The external basic dimensions are 45.17 × 25.46 m. The main building was the men's prayer hall. It has a vestibule and consists of two floors. It is flanked on the north and south sides by single-storey plastered side wings. These in turn have two-storey octagonal towers made of bricks at their western corners. They are not connected to the interior of the wing.

The main hall has two floors to the west; in the first the vestibule and two other rooms, and in the second three rooms, which were probably the prayer rooms of the women. It measures 18.90 × 16.70 m and has twelve arched windows. It is covered with a hipped roof.

The Torah shrine was in the center of a niche on the eastern wall. It was made of steel and covered by a parochet (Torah curtain) decorated with pearls and jewels . The bima was also no longer there.

The walls were decorated with murals and wood carvings.

The two side wings each had two rooms, one of which was probably the tzaddik's private prayer room .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/article9DUX6-1.222607 History. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
  2. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/der-erinnerung-eine-zukunft-ld.1320183 restoration. Retrieved February 4, 2019
  3. ↑ http://cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php?mode=set&id=10438 Description before the renovation, location sketches. Retrieved February 4, 2019.

See also

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