Great Synagogue (Starokostjantyniw)
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The Great Synagogue in Starokostjantyniv , a city in Khmelnitsky Oblast in Ukraine , was most likely built in the first half of the 17th century and existed until World War II .
history
The synagogue, built in the first half of the seventeenth century, was closed and looted by the Soviet authorities in the second half of the 1930s .
During the Second World War , the building was destroyed by the German occupiers.
architecture
There is little information about the structure, which can be derived from drawings and photos.
Presumably, only the rectangular main hall with a hipped roof was originally built, with the east-west axis being longer. A few steps led from the ground floor entrance into the lower room.
Later, lower buildings were added on the west side, which almost covered the windows on this side.
The windows (three each in the south and probably also in the north, as well as two in the east and west) were narrow and long and had a pointed arch . Between and above the two windows on the east and west side was an oculus .
The high Torah shrine was three-story and richly decorated with wood carvings.
The octagonal bima was surrounded by an iron balustrade and probably came from the 19th century.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka: Heaven's Gates. Masonry synagogues in the territories of the former Polish - Lithuania Commonwealth. Page 258. Polish Institute of World Art Studies & POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw 2017, ISBN 978-83-942344-3-0 . Detailed description.
- ↑ https://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=uk&u=https://starkon.city/read/events/27251/taemnici-velikoi-sinagogi-u-starokostyantinovi-de-bula-ta-hto -ii-znischiv & prev = search History in the 20th century. Retrieved June 1, 2019