Synagogue (Hwisdez)
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The wooden synagogue in Hwisdez ( Polish: Gwoździec ) in the Kolomyja district of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in western Ukraine was built around 1640, damaged in pogroms instigated by Russian troops during the First World War and burned down by the German occupiers after 1941.
The town of Hwisdez was Polish until the end of the 18th century, afterwards it belonged to Austria-Hungary like all of Galicia , was Polish again from 1918 to 1939 and has been Ukrainian since 1990.
The wooden vault of the almost forgotten sacred building was reconstructed in 2014 in the Warsaw Museum of the History of Polish Jews .
The approximately 15-meter-high building on a rectangular floor plan with beveled edges was built using the framework construction method . The gradually receding roof was covered with shingles. In the interior there was an 11.3 × 11.3 large octagonal wooden vault with rich painting under the roof truss. Before 1729 the vault was rebuilt, a hallway, women's rooms and a brick room on the southwest corner were added as a cheder and prayer room in winter. The painting in the interior (after 1652) is the work of Israel, son of Mordechai Liśnicki from Jaryczów, who also made the paintings in the synagogue in Chodoriw . It was renewed around 1729 by Isaac, son of Yehuda-ha-Kohen from Jaryczów.
Before 1910 the synagogue was renovated. After the First World War, the fire damage was repaired until the building burned down completely after 1941.
The reconstruction of the vault, which took place between 2010 and 2014, was possible thanks to the preserved manuscript by the painter Karol Zyndram Maszkowski (1868–1938). Maszkowski visited Gwoździec in the fall of 1891, where he was working on a treatise on polychromy in the synagogue. In 1898/1899 he added ink drawings to the treatise commissioned by the Cracow Polish Academy of Learning.
The reconstruction has been prepared by the Warsaw Jewish Historical Institute in collaboration with the Hand House Studio from Massachusetts promoted.
Most of the work, sponsored by Irene Platke, was done using traditional tools and materials. The carpentry work was mainly carried out in the Museum of Folk Architecture in Sanok , while the painting work was done by art students in various locations in Poland and the United States. The finished vault was unveiled on October 28, 2014.
In addition to the vault, the richly decorated lectern ( bima ) was also restored.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 46 ″ N , 25 ° 17 ′ 1 ″ E