Great Synagogue in Illintsi
Object Detail
damaged by fire in 2019 (roof collapsed)
Building Date
17??
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Brick
Summary and Remarks
In the later period, buttresses were added to support the northwestern and southwestern corners of the vestibule
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
The synagogue was built in the 18th century and was functioning until the 1920s.
In the 1950s-1960s, the building was changed into a furniture factory and new extensions were built.
In 2019 the building was destroyed by fire.
Condition
Present Usage
Factory
Present Usage Details
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
Part of shulhoyf
Significance Rating
3 (National)
Condition of Building Fabric
C (Poor)
Bibliography
CJA documentation;
Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues, and mass grave sites in Ukraine. United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad (Washington D.C., 2005);
Boris Khaimovich, "Istoriko-etnographicheskie ekspeditsii Peterburgskogo evreiskogo universiteta," in: V.A.Dymshitz (ed.), Istoriia evreev na Ukraine i v Belorussii: ekspeditsii, pamiatniki, nakhodki (=Trudy po iudaike, issue 2) (St. Petersburg, 1994), p. 25-26 with ill.;
Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 4 - 2000, p. 507 with ill.
https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2019/11/16/ukraine-fire-destroys-former-great-synagogue-in-illintsi/
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Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Photograph Date
1994
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 49.107555, 29.203968