Great Suburb Synagogue

The Great Suburban Synagogue was a synagogue in Bożnicza ( today: Sanska ) road # 16 in Lviv in Ukraine.

History

The first Jewish community of Lviv city is mentioned in the 14th century, the Jewish community was under the personal protection of the Polish king.

A settlement of a Jewish suburban community in the western suburbs of Lviv, which is called Krakow has been demonstrated in records in 1352. In this suburban community existed until at least 1457 a community of Karaites.

The suburban community was independent of the township and had their own synagogues, ritual and charity, or even a kind of hospital.

1623 was the wooden synagogue from 1623 in the suburbs of Cracow, destroyed outside of Krakow's city walls by fire.

In the years 1632/1633 a stone synagogue was built. This was based on an agreement specific to the City Council, the construction and location.

The synagogue was entered via a porch in the West who, a pillory and guild room had a staircase and one or two levels was above the prayer and the main hall. The pillory was located on the east wall of the porch.

At the height of 4.15 m on the west and entrance wall there was a gallery to the 15 steps leading up and was destined for a boys' choir.

The prayer hall itself was 19.30 meters long, 20.10 meters wide and 19.20 meters deep. The vaulted ceiling of the main hall was divided by nine fields of flat sheets with the cross vault itself was worn exclusively by four large pillars. The four octagonal vault pillars were located at the four corners of the bimah in the center of the room. What was remarkable was that the four pillars that marked the corners of the bimah and the vault were carried farther apart than the other four pillars synagogues, such as the. Łańcut, Lublin or Pincas

The Jewish community of Lviv grew, as Lemberg in the years 1772-1914 was the capital of the Austrian part of Galicia. However, the new congregation was mostly Hasidim, who built their own Schtibl or prayer rooms. The first Schtibl was built in 1820. Until 1838 there were already six other prayer halls. 1869 existed in Lviv fourteen synagogues and about eighty Schtibl

1918 Lviv was Polish and a pogrom broke out, the Great Synagogue was verbrandt. The suburban synagogue was one of the few synagogues that survived this pogrom. 1939 was one of the Jewish community to Lviv 109,500 members.

1941, the synagogue of the Nazi regime was destroyed. In March of 1942, and in January of 1943 about 97,000 members were murdered by the community.