List of synagogues in Ukraine

This List of synagogues in Ukraine contains active, otherwise used and destroyed synagogues in Ukraine. In all cases the year of the completion of the building is given. Italics indicate an approximate date.

Location	Oblast	Name	Built	Destroyed	Remarks	Picture
Alushta	Republic of Crimea			2007–2008
Belz	Lviv					[1]
Belz	Lviv		1843	1950s
Berdyansk	Zaporizhzhia
Berdychiv	Zhytomyr		1850
Berehove	Zakarpattia	Great Synagogue	1890		closed in 1959, covered by concrete shell and used as theatre
	Lviv		1790 end 18th century	1941 destroyed in WW II
Bershad	Vinnytsia	Synagogue	1820		neither destroyed during World War II nor closed after the war; still active
Bila Tserkva	Kyiv	Great Synagogue	1860		closed around 1930. Building well preserved. Used as college
Bilky	Zakarpattia
Boiany	Chernivtsi
Brody	Lviv		1742		Ruined
Chechelnik	Vinnytsia		1750		To be restored after 2018
Chernivtsi	Chernivtsi	Synagogue Chernivtsi	1873–1878		closed in 1940, later burnt down 1959 partially rebuilt and used as a cinema
Chervonohrad	Lviv
Chop	Zakarpattia		1908
Chortkiv	Ternopil		1771		devastated during WW II
Chortkiv	Ternopil		1881–1885
Dnipro	Dnipropetrovsk	Golden Rose Synagogue	1868		1924 workers club and storehouse 1996 returned to Jewish community
(Janów Trembovelski)	Ternopil		1700	1941	Built around 1700; burnt down in WW II
Donetsk	Donetsk		1887			[2]
	Zakarpattia					[3]
Drohobych	Lviv	Choral-Synagogue	1844–1863		warehouse after WW II later ruined renovated since 2016
Drohobych	Lviv		1909
	Volyn					[4]
Dubno	Rivne		1782-1784	1939		[5]
Feodosia	Crimea					[6]
Halych	Ivano-Frankivsk		16th century			[7], [8]
Horokhiv	Volyn					[9], [10]
Horodok	Lviv					[11]
Husiatyn	Ternopil	Synagogue Husiatyn	1654		damaged during WW II 1960 renovated, museum deteriorating since 1990
Hvizdets	Ivano-Frankivsk	Gwoździec Synagogue	1640	1941	wooden Synagogue, damaged during WW I, 1941 completely burnt down
Ivano-Frankivsk	Ivano-Frankivsk		1894-1895
Ivano-Frankivsk	Ivano-Frankivsk
Kamianets-Podilskyi	Khmelnytskyi		1850 middle of 18th century		today used as restaurant
Kharkiv	Kharkiv	Choral-Synagogue	1913		biggest synagogue in Ukraine
Kherson	Kherson		1780	1940s		[12]
Kherson	Kherson		1895			[13]
Khodoriv	Lviv		17th century	1940s
Kyiv	Kyiv	Great Choral Synagogue	1895		1929 riding stable after 1945 again used as synagogue
Kyiv	Kyiv	Brodsky Choral Synagogue	1898		1929 artists club 1941 horse stable 1955 puppet theatre 1997 returned to Jewish community
Kyiv	Kyiv	Karaite Kenesa	1902		belonged to the der Karaite Community, after 1919/1926 no longer used as a synagogue
Kyiv	Kyiv	Galitska Synagogue	1910		1930 closed as a synagogue 2001 returned to the Jewish community
Kolomyia	Ivano-Frankivsk		second half 19th century	1941		[14]
Kozliv	Ternopil					[15]
Kremenchuk	Poltava		19th century	1994		[16]
Kremenets	Ternopil		1839	1941
Kropyvnytskyi (Kirovograd)	Kirovohrad		1895-1897			[17]
Liuboml	Volyn		1510	1947		[18]
Lutsk	Volyn		1814	1972	Kenesa of the Karaite community (wooden building)
Lutsk	Volyn	Great Synagogue	1626–1629		after 1942 partially destroyed after 1970 restored today used as a sports club
Lviv	Lviv	Golden Rose Synagogue	1582	1941
Lviv	Lviv	Great Suburb Synagogue	1633	1941
Lviv	Lviv	Great City Synagogue	1801	1943
Lviv	Lviv	Jakob Glanzer Shul	1844		1941 used as a horse stable after 1945 school after 1989 Jewish cultural centre
Lviv	Lviv	Tempel Synagogue	1840–1846	1941
Lviv	Lviv	Tsori Gilod Synagogue	1925		also known as Beis Aharon V'Yisrael Synagogue 1941 used as a horse stable afterwards storehouse after 1989 returned to the Jewish community
Mariupol	Donetsk		1882			[19]
Mykolaiv	Mykolaiv		1880–1884			[20]
Mykolaiv	Mykolaiv		1880–1884			[21]
	Zhytomyr		1800 end 18th, begin 19th century	???
Odessa	Odessa	Beit Chabad Synagogue	1893
Odessa	Odessa	Brodsky Synagogue	1863–1867		since 1925 workers club "Rosa Luxemburg" later city archive 2016 returned to Jewish community
Odessa	Odessa	Kenesa-Synagogue	1895
Odessa	Odessa	Nachlas Eliezer Synagogue	1890
Odessa	Odessa		1855		since 1923 used as a museum, music theater, sports hall 1996 returned to Jewish community
Olyka	Volyn		1879	1942	Wooden synagogue; destroyed sometime after liquidation of ghetto (July 1942)
Oleksandriia	Kirovohrad					[22]
Oleksandrivsk	Luhansk					[23]
Pavlivka	Volyn		18th century	1940s
Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv Oblast (Golta)	Mykolaiv		1908			[24]
Pidhaitsi	Ternopil	Pidhaitsi Synagogue	1648		in ruinous state
Pohrebyshche	Vinnytsia	Pohrebyshche Synagogue	1690	1941	since 1928 workers club destroyed during WW II
Radomyshl	Zhytomyr	Radomyshl Synagogue	1887	1930	burnt down in 1926; demolished in the 1930s
Rivne	Rivne		1840–1874
Rozdil	Lviv		1730	1907	destroyed by fire either 1907 or in WK I
Sadhora	Chernivtsi		19th century
Sataniv	Khmelnytskyi	Sataniv Synagogue	1514		probably the oldest synagogue in Ukraine
Sharhorod	Vinnytsia	Synagogue	1589		one of the oldest synagogues in Ukraine
Simferopol	Crimea		1881	1975		[25]
Skelivka	Lviv		1800	1941	burnt down in WW II
Skhidnytsia	Lviv	Skhidnytsia Synagogue	1880		only wooden synagogue in Ukraine that still exists
Storozhynets	Chernivtsi		1890			[26]
Stryi	Lviv		1689		reconstruction around 1886	[27]
Ternopil	Ternopil		1622–1628	1940s		[28]
Tulchyn	Vinnytsia		1815	1948–1949		[29]
Uzhhorod	Zakarpattia	Synagogue Uschhorod	1910		not used as a synagogue concert hall,
Velyki Mosty	Lviv	Synagogue	1900		deteriorating since 1950
Vinnytsia	Vinnytsia		1904			[30]
Voinyliv	Ivano-Frankivsk					[31]
Volodymyr-Volynskyi	Volyn			after 1945		[32], [33]
Vyzhnytsia	Chernivtsi					[34]
Vyzhnytsia	Chernivtsi		late 19th century			[35]
Vyzhnytsia	Chernivtsi		19th century			[36]
Yabluniv	Ivano-Frankivsk		1674 between 1650 and 1674	1914 in WW I		[37]
Yazlovets	Ternopil		1650	1941 in WW II
Yevpatoria	Crimea					[38]
Yevpatoria	Crimea					[39]
Zabolotiv	Ivano-Frankivsk		19th century			[40]
Zaporizhzhia	Zaporizhzhia		19th century			[41]
(Lanckorun)	Khmelnytskyi		end of 17th century	1940s		[42]
Zhovkva	Lviv		1690–1692
Zhuravne	Lviv					[43]
Zhydachiv	Lviv		1742	1941 in WW II	well known for wall paintings

External links[]

• [44] Old postcards and photos of synagogues in Ukraine
• [45] Old pictures of synagogues (many in Ukraine) - alamy.de

Literature[]

• Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka: Landscape With Menorah: Jews in the towns and cities of the former Rzeczpospolita of Poland and Lithuania. Salix alba Press, Warsaw 2015, ISBN 978-83-930937-7-9.
• Maria und Kazimierz Piechotka: Heaven’s Gates. Wooden synagogues in the territories of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commenwealth. Polish Institute of World Art Studies & POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warschau 2015, ISBN 978-83-942048-6-0.
• Maria und Kazimierz Piechotka: Heaven’s Gates. Masonry synagogues in the territories of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Polish Institute of World Art Studies & POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warschau 2017, ISBN 978-83-949149-5-0.
• Sergey R. Kravtsov, Vladimir Levin. Synagogues in Ukraine VOLHYNIA Volume 1 and 2. The Center Of Jewish Art. ISBN 978-965-227-342-0.