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Husiatyn Synagogue

Гусятин, Italy

Husiatyn Synagogue

The Great Synagogue (Festungs-Schule) is a former Orthodox Jewish synagogue, located on Heroiv Maidanu Street, in Husiatyn, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. The congregation worshipped initially in the Ashkenazi rite; however, by the late 19th-century, the congregation worshipped according to Hassidic prac

tices. Described as "one of the loveliest and most splendid in Galicia", and as "exquisite", the former synagogue building is listed as a monument of Architectural Heritage of National Importance of Ukraine.

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