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During the German occupation the building was used as a commercial warehouse. Temple Synagogue was destroyed in 1941. After the war, when Lviv was occupied by Soviet troops, the Jewish community rallied around the Glanzer synagogue as the only surviving synagogue in that part of Lviv. Despite Soviet
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The building was decorated with round windows, made on elongated semicircular axes; they lit a large prayer hall and the second tiers of the women's galleries. The synagogue building occupies two parcels in the block’s housing. In its northern part, there is a prayer hall; the synagogue premises are
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Restoration began in 1989 to preserve the synagogue as a Jewish cultural center, under the auspices of the Sholom Aleichem Jewish Culture Society. External walls of a building were repaired in 1990. In 2012, previously unknown paintings on the wall were discovered. As of September 2020, the
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During its use as a synagogue, the building was altered several times from its initial designs by Józef Engel. The entrance to the women’s gallery was redesigned by Maurycy Silberstein in 1888; the synagogue and the Talmud Torah school underwent a substantial reconstruction by Volodymyr
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Rabbi Yaakov Gur-Aryeh served as spiritual leader from the end of World War II until his death in the early 1960s. At that time, the Soviets closed the synagogue took literally everything and removed all the
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The main prayer hall was converted to a sports hall; the western two tiers of galleries for women were dismantled; the murals on the walls and ceiling were over painted; the
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was dismantled; and the and Torah niche in the eastern wall was bricked up. The temple's property was distributed among Lviv museums.
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bath in the synagogue. The Soviets transformed the building into a gymnasium in 1960.
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located in the southern part. In the prayer hall interior, two tiers of the southern women's galleries have survived.
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Jews. In addition to funding the construction of the Hasidic synagogue, Glanzer donated funds towards the Progressive
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occupation, in 1954 the Jewish community gained permission for the arrangement of the ritual
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This article about a synagogue or other Jewish place of worship in Ukraine is a
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had been empty for some period of time and the building was in poor condition.
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Pidhorodetskyi in 1912; and in 1920, following the 1918
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Jewish Social Democratic Labour Party (Poalei Zion)
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Affiliation
Orthodox Judaism
Hasidic Judaism
Ecclesiastical or organisational status
Synagogue
Jewish museum
Lviv
Ukraine
Jakob Glanzer Shul is located in Ukraine
Ukraine
Geographic coordinates
49°50′44″N 24°01′37″E / 49.84556°N 24.02694°E / 49.84556; 24.02694
Architect(s)
Synagogue architecture
Style
Baroque Revival
Orthodox
Hasidic
Jewish
synagogue
Lviv
Ukraine
World War II
Jewish history museum
Baroque Revival
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Austrian Empire
Great City Synagogue
Progressive

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