Brodsky Synagogue
The Brodsky Synagogue ( Yiddish: Brodsky Shul בראדסקי שול ), also Choral Synagogue is next to the Podil Synagogue and the Synagogue Halyzka one of the still used synagogues in Kiev in the Ukraine. It was re-consecrated as a synagogue in 2000.
The synagogue was built in the years 1897-1898 according to the plans of Georg grinders in the Moorish style. The construction of the synagogue was doing financed by the sugar magnate and philanthropist Lazar Brodsky.
In 1926 the church was confiscated. The building was then used as a club for an artist and a puppet theater. During the occupation by the Nazi regime, the synagogue was used as a stable for the horses of the army. Moshe Reuven Azman 1991 rabbi of the Jewish Religious Community Chabad Lubavich and demanded the return of the synagogue to the Jewish community Kiev, which took place in December 1997. In the 70 years of the conversion of the establishment of the synagogue had suffered severe damage. Your arch and the Bimah had been knocked out to install a suspended ceiling. The woman galleries had been converted into offices. In January 1999 began a fifteen -month reconstruction program in order to then use the synagogue again as such can.
Interior
Interior