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.
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boiany Synagogue | Boiany |  | |||
| Czernowitz Synagogue | Chernivtsi |  | 1878 | Closed in 1940, later burnt down; 1959 partially rebuilt and used as a cinema [1] | |
| Sadhora Hasidic Synagogue | Sadhora |  | 19th century | ||
| Storozhynets Synagogue | Storozhynets | 1890 | |||
| Vyzhnytsia Synagogue | Vyzhnytsia | ||||
| Vyzhnytsia Mendel Synagogue | Vyzhnytsia | late 19th century | |||
| Vyzhnytsia Hasidic Synagogue | Vyzhnytsia | 19th century |
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alushta Synagogue | Alushta |  | 2008 | ||
| Feodosia Choral Synagogue | Feodosia | ||||
| Simferopol Synagogue | Simferopol | 1881 | 1975 | ||
| Yevpatoria Synagogue | Yevpatoria | ||||
| Eupatorian Kenassas | Yevpatoria |  | 1837 | The synagogue complex is the oldest active Karaite synagogue in the world [2] |
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Rose Synagogue | Dnipro |  | 1868 | 1924 workers' club and storehouse; 1996 returned to Jewish community [3] |
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donetsk Synagogue | Donetsk | 1887 | |||
| Choral Synagogue (Ukrainian: Хоральная синагога) | Mariupol |  | 1882 | Last used as a synagogue in 1944; only ruins remain [4] |
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halych Synagogue | Halych | , | 16th century | ||
| Gwoździec Synagogue | Hvizdets |  | c. 1640 | 1941 | Wooden synagogue;; damaged during WWI; completely burnt in 1941 [5] |
| Ivano-Frankivsk Great Synagogue | Ivano-Frankivsk |  | 1895 | ||
| Ivano-Frankivsk Otyner Kloyz Synagogue | Ivano-Frankivsk |  | |||
| Kolomyia Synagogue | Kolomyia | second half 19th century | 1941 | ||
| Voinyliv Synagogue | Voinyliv | ||||
| Yabluniv Synagogue | Yabluniv | c. 1674; between 1650 and 1674 | c. 1914; in WWI | ||
| Zabolotiv Synagogue | Zabolotiv | 19th century |
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kharkiv Choral Synagogue (Ukrainian: Харківська хоральна синагога) | Kharkiv |  | 1913 | Synagogue until 1923; communal use until 1980; restored as a synagogue in 1980; gutted by a fire in 1988 and restored in 2003; [6] partially damaged in 2022 during the Russo-Ukrainian War [7] |
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kherson Old Synagogue | Kherson | 1780 | 1940s | ||
| Kherson New Synagogue | Kherson | 1895 |
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kamianets-Podilskyi Synagogue | Kamianets-Podilskyi |  | c. 1850; middle of 18th century | Today used as restaurant | |
| Great Synagogue | Sataniv |  | 1514 | Used as a warehouse from 1933; restored as a synagogue in 2012 and one of the oldest synagogues in Ukraine [8] | |
| Zarichanka Synagogue | Zarichanka (Lanckorun) | end of 17th century | 1940s |
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kropyvnytskyi Choral Synagogue | Kropyvnytskyi (Kirovograd) | 1897 | |||
| Oleksandriia Synagogue | Oleksandriia |
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Synagogue | Bila Tserkva |  | 1860 | Closed c. 1930; building well preserved; used as college; handed back to the Jewish community from 2019 [9] | |
| Great Choral Synagogue (Ukrainian: Велика хоральна синагога Києва) | Kyiv |  | 1895 | 1929 riding stable; after 1945 again used as synagogue [10] | |
| Brodsky Choral Synagogue (Ukrainian: Синаго́га Бро́дського) | Kyiv |  | 1898 | 1929 artists' club; c. 1941 horse stable; 1955 puppet theatre; 1997 returned to Jewish community and restored as a synagogue from 2000 [11] | |
| Karaite Kenesa | Kyiv |  | 1902 | A Karaite synagogue until 1929; a drama centre since 1961 [12] | |
| Galitska Synagogue (also Halytska Synagogue) | Kyiv |  | 1910 | Closed as a synagogue in 1930; used a workers' canteen; reopened as a synagogue in 2004 [13] [14] |
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oleksandrivsk Synagogue | Oleksandrivsk |
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belz Old Synagogue | Belz | ||||
| Belz New Synagogue | Belz |  | 1843 | 1950s | |
| Brody Synagogue | Brody |  | 1742 | Ruined | |
| Beresdivtsi | Beresdivtsi |  | c. 1790; end 18th century | c. 1941 in WW II | |
| Chervonohrad Synagogue | Chervonohrad |  | |||
| Choral Synagogue | Drohobych |  | 1863 | Warehouse after WW II; later ruined; renovated since 2016 [15] | |
| Progressive Synagogue | Drohobych |  | 1909 | ||
| Horodok, Lviv Oblast Synagogue | Horodok | ||||
| Khodoriv Synagogue | Khodoriv |  | 17th century | 1940s | |
| Golden Rose Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת טורי זהב) | Lviv |  | 1582 | 1941 | Desecrated in August 1941; ruins demolished in 1943; now part of The Space of Synagogues [16] [17] [18] |
| Great Suburb Synagogue | Lviv |  | 1633 | 1941 | Ruins dismantled in the late 1940s [19] |
| Great City Synagogue | Lviv |  | 1801 | 1942 | Burend by the Nazis in August 1941; ruins destroyed in 1942 [20] |
| Jakob Glanzer Shul | Lviv |  | 1844 | Used as a synagogue until 1962; various other uses during WWII and Soviet occupration; Jewish cultural centre and museum since 1995 [21] | |
| Tempel Synagogue | Lviv |  | 1846 | 1941 | Destroyed by the Nazis during WWII [22] [23] |
| Tsori Gilod Synagogue | Lviv |  | 1925 | Also known as Beis Aharon V'Yisrael Synagogue; 1941 used as a horse stable; afterwards storehouse; restored as a synagogue from 1989 [24] | |
| Rozdil Synagogue | Rozdil |  | c. 1730 | c. 1907 | Destroyed by fire either 1907 or in WWI |
| Skelivka Synagogue | Skelivka |  | c. 1800 | c. 1941 | Burnt down in WWII |
| Skhidnytsia Synagogue | Skhidnytsia |  | c. 1880 | The only remaining wooden synagogue in Ukraine [25] | |
| Stryi Small Synagogue | Stryi | 1689 | Reconstruction c. 1886 | ||
| Great Synagogue | Velyki Mosty |  | c. 1900 | Damaged during both WWI and WWII; the synagogue ruins have been deteriorating since c. 1950 [26] | |
| Great Synagogue | Zhovkva |  | 1692 | Partially destroyed during WWII; partial rebuild during the 1950s and 1990; included on the 2000 World Monuments Watch; remains partially restored [27] [28] | |
| Zhuravne Synagogue | Zhuravne | ||||
| Zhydachiv Synagogue | Zhydachiv |  | 1742 | c. 1941 in WW II | Well known for murals |
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mykolaiv Synagogue | Mykolaiv | 1884 | |||
| Pervomaisk Synagogue | Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv Oblast (Golta) | 1908 |
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beit Chabad Synagogue | Odesa |  | 1893 | ||
| Brodsky Synagogue | Odesa |  | 1867 | Since c. 1925 workers' club "Rosa Luxemburg"; later city archive; 2016 returned to Jewish community and under restoration [29] | |
| Kenesa Synagogue | Odesa |  | 1895 | ||
| Nachlas Eliezer Synagogue | Odesa |  | 1890 | ||
| Or-Sameach Synagogue | Odesa |  | 1855 | Since 1923 used as a museum, music theater, sports hall; 1996 returned to Jewish community |
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kremenchuk Synagogue | Kremenchuk | 19th century | 1994 |
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dubno Synagogue | Dubno | 1784 | 1939 | ||
| Rivne Synagogue | Rivne |  | 1874 |
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chortkiv Old Synagogue | Chortkiv |  | 1771 | Devastated during WW II | |
| Chortkiv Hasidic Synagogue | Chortkiv |  | 1885 | ||
| Dolyna (Terebovlia) Synagogue | Dolyna (Terebovlia) (Janów Trembovelski) |  | c. 1700 | c. 1941 | Burnt down in WW II |
| Great Synagogue | Husiatyn |  | 1654 | Damaged during WW II; renovated c. 1960 as a museum; deteriorating since c. 1990 [30] [31] | |
| Kozliv Synagogue | Kozliv | ||||
| Kremenets Great Synagogue | Kremenets |  | 1839 | 1941 | |
| Great Synagogue | Pidhaitsi |  | c. 1648 | 2019 | Abandoned during WWII; used for grain storage thereafter, then in a ruinous state before its collapse in 2019 and subsequent demolition [32] |
| Ternopil Synagogue | Ternopil | 1628 | 1940s | ||
| Yazlovets Synagogue | Yazlovets |  | c. 1650 | c. 1941; in WWII |
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bershad Synagogue | Bershad |  | c. 1820 | Neither destroyed during World War II nor closed after the war; still active [33] | |
| Chechelnik Synagogue | Chechelnik |  | c. 1750 | Restoration commenced in 2018 | |
| Pohrebyshche Synagogue | Pohrebyshche |  | c. 1690 | c. 1941 | A former wooden synagogue; used as a workers' club from 1928; destroyed during WWII [34] |
| Great Synagogue | Sharhorod |  | 1589 | One of the oldest synagogues in Ukraine [35] | |
| Tulchyn Synagogue | Tulchyn | 1815 | 1949 | ||
| Vinnytsia Synagogue | Vinnytsia | 1904 |
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Druzkopol Synagogue | Druzkopol | ||||
| Horokhiv Synagogue | Horokhiv | , | |||
| Liuboml Synagogue | Liuboml | 1510 | 1947 | ||
| Kenesa, Lutsk | Lutsk |  | 1814 | 1972 | Kenesa of the Karaite community (wooden building) |
| Great Synagogue | Lutsk |  | 1629 | Partially destroyed after 1942; after 1970 restored; today used as a sports club [36] [37] | |
| Olyka Great Synagogue | Olyka |  | 1879 | c. 1942 | Wooden synagogue; destroyed sometime after July 1942 |
| Pavlivka Synagogue | Pavlivka |  | 18th century | 1940s | |
| Volodymyr-Volynskyi Great Synagogue | Volodymyr-Volynskyi | , | after 1945 |
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Synagogue | Berehove |  | c. 1890 | Closed in 1959; covered by concrete shell and used as theatre [38] | |
| Bilky Synagogue | Bilky |  | |||
| Synagogue Chop | Chop |  | 1908 | ||
| Dowhe Synagogue | Dowhe | ||||
| Mukachevo Synagogue | Mukachevo |  | |||
| Uzhhorod Synagogue (Ukrainian: Ужгородська Синагога) | Uzhhorod |  | 1910 | Used as a synagogue until 1944; used as a concert hall since 1947 [39] |
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berdyansk Synagogue | Berdyansk |  | |||
| Zaporizhzhia Synagogue | Zaporizhzhia | 19th century |
| Name | Location | Image | Completed | Destroyed | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berdychiv Choral Synagogue | Berdychiv |  | 1850 | ||
| Norynsk Synagogue | Norynsk |  | c. 1800; end 18th, begin 19th century | ||
| Radomyshl Synagogue | Radomyshl |  | 1887 | c. 1930 | Burnt down in 1926; demolished in the 1930s [40] |
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