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 1917
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 [1] 1890
Vyzhnytsia Synagogue Vyzhnytsia [2]
Vyzhnytsia Mendel Synagogue Vyzhnytsia [3] late 19th century
Vyzhnytsia Hasidic Synagogue Vyzhnytsia [4] 19th century

Republic of Crimea

Name Location Image Completed Destroyed Remarks
Alushta Synagogue Alushta 1910-1913 2008
Feodosia Choral Synagogue Feodosia [5]
Simferopol Synagogue Simferopol [6] 1881 1975
Yevpatoria Synagogue Yevpatoria [7]
Eupatorian Kenassas Yevpatoria In April 2014 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 [8] 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 [9], [10] 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 [11] second half 19th century 1941
Voinyliv Synagogue Voinyliv [12]
Yabluniv Synagogue Yabluniv [13] c. 1674; between 1650 and 1674 c. 1914; in WWI
Zabolotiv Synagogue Zabolotiv [14] 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 [15] 1780 1940s
Kherson New Synagogue Kherson [16] 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) [17] end of 17th century 1940s

Kirovohrad Oblast

Name Location Image Completed Destroyed Remarks
Kropyvnytskyi Choral Synagogue Kropyvnytskyi (Kirovograd) [18] 1897
Oleksandriia Synagogue Oleksandriia [19]

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 [20]

Lviv Oblast

Name Location Image Completed Destroyed Remarks
Belz Old Synagogue Belz [21]
Belz New Synagogue Belz 1905-1910 1843 1950s
Brody Synagogue Brody 1742 Ruined
Beresdivtsi Beresdivtsi between 1900, 1939 c. 1790;
end 18th century 		c. 1941
in WW II
Chervonohrad Synagogue Chervonohrad 1910/24
Choral Synagogue Drohobych 1863 Warehouse after WW II; later ruined; renovated since 2016[15]
Progressive Synagogue Drohobych 1909
Horodok, Lviv Oblast Synagogue Horodok [22]
Khodoriv Synagogue Khodoriv between 1914, 1918 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 [23] 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 ZolkiewSynagoga 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 [24]
Zhydachiv Synagogue Zhydachiv 1742 c. 1941
in WW II 		Well known for murals

Mykolaiv Oblast

Name Location Image Completed Destroyed Remarks
Mykolaiv Synagogue Mykolaiv [25] 1884
Pervomaisk Synagogue Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv Oblast (Golta) [26] 1908

Odesa Oblast

Name Location Image Completed Destroyed Remarks
Beit Chabad Synagogue Odesa
Bejt-Chabat-Synagoge
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
Karaite-Kenesa
 1895
Nachlas Eliezer Synagogue Odesa
Nachlas Elieser Synagoge (2014)
Nachlas Elieser Synagoge (2014)
 1890
Or-Sameach Synagogue Odesa
Or-Sameach-Synagoge
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 [27] 19th century 1994

Rivne Oblast

Name Location Image Completed Destroyed Remarks
Dubno Synagogue Dubno [28] 1784 1939
Rivne Synagogue Rivne 1874

Ternopil Oblast

Name Location Image Completed Destroyed Remarks
Chortkiv Old Synagogue Chortkiv 2016 1771 Devastated during WW II
Chortkiv Hasidic Synagogue Chortkiv 2011 1885
Dolyna (Terebovlia) Synagogue Dolyna (Terebovlia) (Janów Trembovelski) Synagogue in the 1920s 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 [29]
Kremenets Great Synagogue Kremenets 1925 1839 1941
Great Synagogue Pidhaitsi Pidhaitsi Synagogue RB 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 [30] 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 [31] 1815 1949
Vinnytsia Synagogue Vinnytsia [32] 1904

Volyn Oblast

Name Location Image Completed Destroyed Remarks
Druzkopol Synagogue Druzkopol [33]
Horokhiv Synagogue Horokhiv [34], [35]
Liuboml Synagogue Liuboml [36] 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
1925
 1879 c. 1942 Wooden synagogue; destroyed sometime after July 1942
Pavlivka Synagogue Pavlivka 1930 18th century 1940s
Volodymyr-Volynskyi Great Synagogue Volodymyr-Volynskyi [37], [38] 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 1910/16
Synagogue Chop Chop 1908
Dowhe Synagogue Dowhe [39]
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 1910
Zaporizhzhia Synagogue Zaporizhzhia [40] 19th century

Zhytomyr Oblast

Name Location Image Completed Destroyed Remarks
Berdychiv Choral Synagogue Berdychiv 1913 1850
Norynsk Synagogue Norynsk
Norynsk Wooden Synagogue
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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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.