Ukraine: Fire Guts former Great Synagogue in Illintsi. Had long been used as a carpentry workshop (UPDATE: Much of structure appears to have survived)

Posted in: Damage / Threats / Vandalism, Digital resources, Documentation, Synagogues
Tagged: Ukraine
Posted on: November 16, 2019

Former Great Synagogue in Illintsi in 2018. Photo: Prymasal, via wikimedia, Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 4.0

The former Great Synagogue in Illintsi, in southwest Ukraine, was gutted by fire this past week, according to local media and video.

UPDATE: a picture posted on Facebook after the fire was extinguished showed the at least parts of the structure of the damaged building survived. Click to see photo.

Built in the 18th century, the baroque style brick synagogue, located southwest of Kyiv between Vinnytsia and Uman, was one of the largest in the Vinnytsia region. Since the Holocaust it had been used as a furniture factory and carpentry shop.

The web site 20minut.ua said the fire broke out around 20:30 on Thursday night and quickly engulfed the structure, causing the roof to collapse within about an hour.

Watch a cellphone video of the fire:

The Center for Jewish Art documented the synagogue in the 1990s and created a 3d computer model of it — inside and out.

Center for Jewish Art 3d computer model of Illintsi synagogue

Illintsi synagogue 3d computer model by Center for Jewish Art

Click here to see all the images of the 3d computer model

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1 comment on “Ukraine: Fire Guts former Great Synagogue in Illintsi. Had long been used as a carpentry workshop (UPDATE: Much of structure appears to have survived)”

Ellen Mark

November 17, 2019 at 23:46

My grandmother’s family, Gollub, was from Zviny Gorodka. I wonder if they ever were in this synagogue… Deeply sad to learn of its loss.
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Ukraine: Fire Guts former Great Synagogue in Illintsi. Had long been used as a carpentry workshop (UPDATE: Much of structure appears to have survived)

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