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.

Chernivtsi Oblast

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

Republic of Crimea

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]

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Golden Rose Synagogue	Dnipro		1868		1924 workers' club and storehouse; 1996 returned to Jewish community [3]

Donetsk Oblast

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]

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

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

Kharkiv Oblast

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]

Kherson Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Kherson Old Synagogue	Kherson		1780	1940s
Kherson New Synagogue	Kherson		1895

Khmelnytskyi Oblast

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

Kirovohrad Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Kropyvnytskyi Choral Synagogue	Kropyvnytskyi (Kirovograd)		1897
Oleksandriia Synagogue	Oleksandriia

Kyiv Oblast

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]

Luhansk Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Oleksandrivsk Synagogue	Oleksandrivsk

Lviv Oblast

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

Mykolaiv Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Mykolaiv Synagogue	Mykolaiv		1884
Pervomaisk Synagogue	Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv Oblast (Golta)		1908

Odesa Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Beit Chabad Synagogue	Odesa	Bejt-Chabat-Synagoge	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	Karaite-Kenesa	1895
Nachlas Eliezer Synagogue	Odesa	Nachlas Elieser Synagoge (2014)	1890
Or-Sameach Synagogue	Odesa	Or-Sameach-Synagoge	1855		Since 1923 used as a museum, music theater, sports hall; 1996 returned to Jewish community

Poltava Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Kremenchuk Synagogue	Kremenchuk		19th century	1994

Rivne Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Dubno Synagogue	Dubno		1784	1939
Rivne Synagogue	Rivne		1874

Ternopil Oblast

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

Vinnytsia Oblast

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

Volyn Oblast

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	1925	1879	c. 1942	Wooden synagogue; destroyed sometime after July 1942
Pavlivka Synagogue	Pavlivka		18th century	1940s
Volodymyr-Volynskyi Great Synagogue	Volodymyr-Volynskyi	,		after 1945

Zakarpattia Oblast

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]

Zaporizhzhia Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Berdyansk Synagogue	Berdyansk
Zaporizhzhia Synagogue	Zaporizhzhia		19th century

Zhytomyr Oblast

Name	Location	Image	Completed	Destroyed	Remarks
Berdychiv Choral Synagogue	Berdychiv		1850
Norynsk Synagogue	Norynsk	Norynsk Wooden Synagogue	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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External links

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

Further reading

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