Great Synagogue (Leschniw)
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The Great Synagogue in Leshniv , a city in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine , was built in the 17th century and destroyed in World War II.
history
The synagogue was built around 1677 in place of a wooden synagogue built 50 years earlier. The Jewish community of Leschniw was poor, so that the building was in very poor condition as early as 1880; Repairs to the roof in 1889 did little. Usually private houses were used for prayers; the congregation only met in the synagogue on major holidays. Repairs were carried out between 1912 and 1914. The building was partially damaged in the First World War .
After the war, Leschniw came to Poland and the synagogue was restored in the mid-1930s.
In World War II it was destroyed and the remains of the ruins were finally demolished in the late 1950s.
architecture
The building was cubic in shape; the interior was almost square with 15.65 x 15 m. The height to the cornice was 11.50 m. The hipped roof was covered by a parapet of different shapes on the east-west and north-south sides.
There were three arched windows on each of the side walls . Flat, narrow pilasters also divided the walls. There were low extensions on three sides,
Inside, the main hall was divided into nine equal fields by four pillars.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka: Heaven's Gates. Masonry synagogues in the territories of the former Polish - Lithuania Commonwealth. Page 351 ff. Polish Institute of World Art Studies & POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw 2017, ISBN 978-83-942344-3-0 . Detailed description.
