Uzhgorod Synagogue

The Uzhgorod Synagogue building is located in Uzhhorod, in the present day Zakarpattia Oblast of western Ukraine.SynagogueThe synagogue was completed and dedicated on July 27, 1904. It was then within the Carpathian Ruthenia region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.The building was designed by the architects Gyula Papp and Ferencs Szabolcs, in a flamboyant Romantic style that boldly intermingled Byzantine Revival and Moorish Revival architectural elements.Concert hallSince World War II the building has served as Uzhgorod's concert hall, prized for its acoustics. It has housed the Regional Philharmonic Society with the Transcarpathian Folk Choir.All Jewish symbols were removed from the building, although as of 2012 there is a plaque on the facade commemorating the 85,000 Jews from Zakarpattia Oblast who were murdered in The Holocaust. There are now plans to restore the glass dome with its mosaics.

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