Uzhhorod Radvanka Jewish Cemetery

The cemetery preserves the remains of at least 70 Jewish tombstones, the oldest of which dates from 1855. The cemetery is still operational. It is surrounded by an aerated concrete fence, installed in October 2016 by ESJF.

About this building

For more information on this site visit: https://www.esjf-cemeteries.org/fenced/uzhhorod-radvanka-jewish-cemeter…

Other nearby buildings

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Church of St. Michael

The wooden Church of St. Michael was probably built in 1777. Tyvodar Lehotskyy, a Ukrainian historian, believes that the building was actually constructed a while before this date. According to him, 1777 would be the time of the churches' consecration after the building had been renovated. The building is entirely made of oak and the tower is 22 meters high. It is the only remaining classical Lemko wooden church in the Carpathians. The church was built in an old Ukrainian style, with Baroque towers.
The building had originally been constructed somewhere else, but it was moved to the Uzhhorod Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life in 1972, after a period of abandonment during the Sovjet times.

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Greek Catholic Cathedral

The Greek-Catholic Cathedral of Uzhhorodis was built by the Jesuits in 1646 and was intended as a Jesuit college. The church is dedicated to the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. After the Jesuit order was banned in 1773, the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa gave the church to the Greek Catholics. In 1799, an iconostasis corresponding to the Baroque church was added. During the Soviet period, the church was given to the Orthodox Church. The bishop's residence, located next door, was used as a technical school and became very dilapidated over the years. It was not until 1991 that the church and the residence were returned to the ownership of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church.