#JCulture Project "Research and Preservation of Jewish Cultural Heritage in the Border Area"

      The project "Research and Preservation of Jewish Cultural Heritage in the Border Area" aims to preserve the historical memory of the city's Jewish community, in particular by disseminating information about architectural monuments and important buildings.

      Stanislaviv once had more than 50 synagogues, but now there is only one active one on Stratshennykh Nationalistiv Street. However, it was not the central one in the city, and, moreover, it belonged to the Progressive movement, a reformist branch of Judaism whose representatives were a minority among the local Jews. The chief rabbi of Stanislaviv ruled in another temple, which has not survived.

       Immediately after the Jews settled in Stanislaviv, the first synagogue was built, which was wooden. During the resettlement to a new district, as the researcher L. Streit suggested, a new synagogue was built from the materials of this one, which did not stand for long. It was replaced by a new stone one, and after the fire of 1826 a new synagogue was built, which was located at the entrance to the present-day Ruthenian Triad Square, opposite Trusha Street. The building went through several reconstructions and restorations. In 1868, the synagogue building was damaged in the Great Marmulade Fire, which burned down almost half of the city. The fire destroyed the entire roof and interior of the synagogue. The painting inside this synagogue in 1900 was done by the artist Moses Teitelbaum, who decorated almost all the shrines in Eastern Galicia. In 1942, the building was dismantled by the Jews of the ghetto on the orders of the commandant of the German security police, Stroeger

      The project "Research and Preservation of Jewish Cultural Heritage in the Border Area" (JCulture) is being implemented within the framework of the ENI Hungary-Slovakia-Romania-Ukraine Cross-border Cooperation Programme 2014-2020, funded by the European Union. The responsible partner for the implementation of project activities in Ivano-Frankivsk is the Investment Policy Department of Ivano-Frankivsk City Council.