Location Lviv, Ukraine Completed 1798 Destruction date 1941 | Status Destroyed in 1941 Opened 1798 Architectural style Baroque architecture | |
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Similar Jakob Glanzer Shul, Tempel Synagogue - Lviv, Beis Aharon V'Yisrael | ||
The Great Suburb Synagogue was a synagogue at Bożnicza-Street 16 in Lviv, Ukraine.
History
The synagogue was located on the Kraków suburb (therefore the building received the name), in the street Bożnicza, 16. After destruction of the building, the synagogue was not built up and on its place the square was arranged. The synagogue was built in 1624-1630. Long time it remained a unique stone construction in district. Support and arches in the Great Suburb Synagogue divided overlapping into practically equal nine fields. In 1798 to the prayer hall for men, two branches for women from southern and northern part were attached.
To the Great Suburb Synagogue small prayer houses were attached. They were placed in ground-floor as one-storied outhouses of synagogues:
It was devastated by the Nazis in 1941. It was not rebuilt after war. Commemorative table is placed on a neighbour building.