Halytska Synagogue | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Orthodox Judaism |
Status | inactive |
Location | |
Location | Kyiv, Ukraine |
Geographic coordinates | 50°26′45″N 30°29′17″E / 50.44583°N 30.48806°E |
Architecture | |
Style | Moorish Revival |
Completed | 1909 |
The Aesopian synagogue was built in 1909 in a Moorish Revival style. The facade is neo-romanticist, with neo-Byzantine elements. The building was devastated during the World War II by Nazis. For the next fifty years it was used as a workers' canteen of the "Transsignal" electrotechnical plant. It was renovated in 2001 and is inactive today.