The seminary church is an Orthodox church built in 1882. On 28 June 2011, during the 35th session of the UNESCO Committee, the church was inscribed on the World Heritage List as part of the architectural ensemble of the Residence of Metropolitans of Bukovina and Dalmatia. The five-domed church was built in the Byzantine style with elements of eclecticism. Stylized "crosses of Constantinople" are installed on the domes.
The building of the kloyz was apparently built in the 1920s, when the Rebbe of Boyan, Menachem Nachum Friedman (1869-1936) settled in Chernivtsi. The Rebbe bought an existing house and erected the kloyz in the next plot of land. Thus, a structure of traditional Hasidic court, which unites Rebbe's house and his kloyz, was created in Chernivtsi. According to the memoirs by David Tal, a native of Chernivtsi, the prayer hall of the kloyz was decorated by the paintings of Zodiac signs, the symbols of the Tribes of Israel, Joseph with the sheaves, and the staff of Moses (Boris Khaimovich (Kiev, 2016), p. 48).
The Hevra Tehilim Synagogue of the Vizhnitz Hasidim in Chernivtsi is a Hasidic synagogue from the 19th century. The Rundbogenstil brick building is now a church.
The Great Synagogue in Chernivtsi is an Ashkenazi synagogue completed in 1853. The synagogue is in Neo-Classical and Baroque Survival style.
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