Novoselytsia, UA

New Great Synagogue in Novoselytsia

The synagogue was build in 1919 according the list of donors names, preserved on the western wall of the prayer hall. The wall paintings in the synagogue building's interior were made at approximately in the 1920s, as is made clear by the list of the donors names, which includes the name of the person who contributed money specifically towards this purpose. After WWII, in 1951 the building was converted into a youth club (house of Pioneers) and no longer functioned as a synagogue (Altsuler, p. 454); the paintings were whitewashed with lime, and so preserved over time. In 2009 the paintings were discovered by Svetlana Amosova and cleaned by a team of Kiev specialists guided by Yulii Lifshits. Except for some minor losses due to architectural replanning, virtually the entire composition of the interior is preserved intact.

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Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin is the first Greek-Catholic church in Bukovyna, built in 1820-21 in the Empire style. Initially named the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, the church was called the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin from 1937. In the early 1940s, the church was already too small for the faithful and was therefore enlarged thanks to a project by Volodymyr Zalozetsky. With the advent of the Bolshevik regime in 1946, worship in Ukrainian Greek-Catholic churches was banned and only reopened in 1990.

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