Synagogue (Dolyna, Ternopil)
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The synagogue in Dolyna in the Ukrainian Oblast of Ternopil was built around 1700 and destroyed in World War II.
history
The main building of the wooden synagogue was built around 1700. Probably between 1750 and 1800, a stone porch with a small prayer room and another prayer room for women on the first floor was added to the west side. In 1928 it was classified as extremely dilapidated and therefore renovated in 1934.
It was completely destroyed in World War II.
architecture
The wooden building stood on a stone base. The square main hall was 10.20 x 10.20 m in size. The walls had a height of 6.60 m; the highest point of the vault was 10.60 m. On each side there were 2 window groups with 2 windows each, whereby the windows on the west side were covered by the extension. The windows and also the doors had round arches.
The stone extension was added without regard to the plan of the main building; so the wooden ceiling of the prayer room for women was halfway up the window.
The 6.50 m high Torah shrine was from 1795 and had a bronze eagle figure on its top. The pillars were multicolored.
The bima stood in the middle between the entrance and the stairs to the Torah shrine.
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Source
- ↑ Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka: Heaven's Gates. Wooden synagogues in the territories of the former Rzeczpospolita of Poland and Lithuania. Page 318. Polish Institute of World Art Studies & POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw 2015, ISBN 978-83-942048-6-0