The Church of St. Elijah was built in the 1650s in the style of early Ukrainian Baroque. After the Second World War, a museum of the national hero Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1648 - 1657), who was supposed to be buried here, was opened in the church. In 1954, a symbolic granite tombstone in his honour was erected in the church according to the design of architect I. Shmulson. Since 1990, the church has been returned to the religious community.
In 1860, the Jewish community in Nahirne (also known as Novogeorgievsk, Krylov, or Svetlovodsk which can refer to several neighbouring towns) numbered about 200 and maintained a synagogue in the town. The Jewish cemetery has a few remaining headstones, is fenced, and overgrown.
The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. It appears on an old Russian maps since 1860s so it can be assumed that the cemetery emerged in the mid 19th century. The oldest preserved matzevah among existing found relates to the late 19th century.
The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. According to the Commission of Preservation of the Jewish Heritage, the cemetery was founded in the early 19th century. It can be found marked on a Russian map of the region from 1872, a German map from 1941, and the city plan from 2018.
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