Galitska Synagogue

The prayer house was designed by architect Fyodor Altarzhevsky in 1910 for the needs of the Galician Jewish community, which was named from the neighboring Galician Square (now Victory Square). Under the Soviet rule, the synagogue operated for some time, but was closed in 1930. The building, which was handed over to Trans Signal, has long been used as a dining room. Worship services were only restored at 20 At the beginning of the XX century, the so-called "prison gardens" occupied the territory south of the present Victory Square up to Libya. Prisoners of the prisoners 'mouths, whose barracks have been located nearby, on Bibikovsky Boulevard, looked after them. 27. The prisoners' mouths, founded by Emperor Nicholas I, were mostly made up of vagrants and petty criminals who did not "deserve" . Since the 1870s, companies have emerged from the leadership of the military and have been formally called the "correctional detention facility of the civilian department." However, the people kept the old name. Working in the cities, like any other detention facility, was not actually paid. View of "arresting towns". Postcard of the 1890s Kyiv's "construction boom" at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries led to the elimination of "prison gardens." In their place, several small streets, now engulfed by the Trans-Signal plant, will be planned for construction, which will be discussed in the future. Among them are the Skomoroskaya street, which was named after the Liberty tributary - the Skomorokh stream. Manor # 7 on this street was rented by the Galician Jewish Prayer Community. To Galicia its name has no direct relation: the fact is that the detention centers from the north bordered on the large market square of Galicia. It was mostly traded in the Galician market, so its official name was hardly used; instead, until the 1980s, the area was called the Jewish Bazaar, or abbreviated as Evbaz. Halych Bazaar (Evbaz). 1900s So in 1909 the Galician community appealed to the city authorities for permission to build a prayer house on Skomoroska Street. The construction was taken care of by the head of the economic board of the company, Yakov Faybyshenko, who was also known as a construction contractor in Kyiv. Most likely, he also attracted the works of "proven" architect Fyodor Altarzhevsky, who had previously designed several apartment buildings for Faibyshenko. Altarzhevsky also coped with the project of the synagogue, creating a nice building with elements of Romanesque style in the decor. It is interesting that when Altarzhevsky found himself on the dock for several years because the house he was building on Lvivska Street suddenly collapsed, burying nine workers under the ruins - it was Faibyshenko who testified in court in favor of the architect and was able to prove his power. . It turned out that almost all the brick factories in Kiev, due to the high demand for bricks, produced it that year with the disruption of technology, which led to disaster. The building of the building office of Ya. Faibyshenko on Mariinsky-Blagoveshchenskiy street (now Saksaganskogo), 57. 1910 As for the Synagogue of Galicia, its building has been undisturbed for more than 100 years. Unfortunately, this is not true of the religious center itself. Already in 1919, the prayer house with all the property was nationalized by the Soviet authorities. However, the community was allowed to rent it. The Beit-Yaakov synagogue (which, in memory of Faibishenko, is translated as the "House of Jacob"), existed until the end of 1929, until the premises were taken over by the Southwestern Main Electric Workshops. This was done in the typical for "Soviet democracy" style. When they realized that the workshop workers could only collect 78 votes against the 750 members of the Jewish community for the abolition of the synagogue, they counted the votes of all those present; when this was not enough, they held another meeting and made new votes with the previous ones - so the majority of 975 people finally came out. Soon, on the basis of workshops founded, by the way, as early as 1875, a large Transignal plant was set up, which still produces electrical equipment for railways. Synagogue premises

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