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.
For more information on this site visit: https://www.esjf-cemeteries.org/fenced/nahirne-jewish-cemetery-2/
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.
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.
The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. Given the cemetery appears on the Russian topographic map of 1860s. it can be inferred it was founded before that era. The oldest preserved tombstone dates to the late 19th century.
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