| GPS | (48.293171; 25.933099) |
| district | Chernivtsi |
| region | Shevchenkivsky |
| locality | Chernivtsi |
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| category | Religious objects |
| year | 1 877р. |
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In 1877 the Jewish community of the city has obtained its main temple, where the Chernivtsi reformists Jews were gathering for a prayer. The Temple was once one of the most stylish cult buildings of the old city. Today the “Chernivtsi” cinema is situated here, in which the features of the former Jewish shrine are hardly recognized. The temple has been built by the project of the famous Lviv architect, professor Yulian Zakharevych. The elements of Renaissance and gothics intertwined with exotic Mauritanian motives in the architectural composition of the building. Its walls ended with gracious minaret towers, and in the middle of the roof there rose a huge ornamented copper dome with a spire, crowned with the Star of David. In the beginning of the World War II, in July 1941, the German-Romanian troops have burned this temple. After the return of Soviet authority, there was an attempt to blow up the Temple, but it stood and for a long time has remained partially destroyed. A cinema was opened in the former synagogue in 1959, which was named by Chernivtsi citizens in the memory of the past as “cinemagogue”. Architectural memorial of local significance.
