Great Synagogue (Kremenez)
The Great Synagogue in Kremenets , a Ukrainian city in Ternopil Oblast , was built in the first half of the 19th century and destroyed during World War II.
history
According to an inscription on the eastern facade, the synagogue was built between 1805 and 1839. It stood on the site of an earlier synagogue. In the literature, the early 18th century is occasionally given as the construction time. This is wrong and is probably due to the similarity of the interior with that of the baroque Jesuit college (later the lyceum) built 100 years earlier .
The synagogue was infected by the German occupiers in 1941 and later completely demolished. Today there is a public park at this point.
Of the 18 prayer houses and synagogues in the interwar period , only the synagogue building in the Dubensk suburb remains in Kremenez, which is used as a bus station after renovations.
architecture
The rectangular building consisted of the main hall and a vestibule to the west , above which the prayer rooms for the women were located. There were also lower extensions in the west and north. Pairs of pilasters divided the wall surfaces; four each on the longer sides in the south and north and three in the east and south. Between these were tall, slim, arched windows.
The roof was a gable roof on the east side and a hipped roof over the vestibule and women's rooms in the west . The gable was decorated with a semi-oval in which there were two lions, a star of David and a crown.
The main hall had four rectangular pillars in the middle, dividing the ceiling into nine equally sized fields; a stylistic element of many synagogues in Galicia and Volhynia . The eight outer fields had a cross vault and the inner octagonal shape of a dome. The octagonal bima with a cast iron railing was located between the pillars in the middle of the main hall .
The richly decorated, high Torah shrine stood on the east wall and covered the middle window. It consisted of several levels with pairs of columns on the sides. It is very similar to the shrine in the synagogue in Berestechko . Its creation is estimated to have been around 1880.
See also
References
- ↑ Sergey R. Kravtsov, Vladimir Levin. Synagogues in Ukraine VOLHYNIA Vol. 1. Pages 339 - 349. The Center Of Jewish Art. ISBN 978-965-227-342-0 . All information about the synagogue
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Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '57.8 " N , 25 ° 43' 36.5" E