Brodsky Synagogue

The Brodsky Choral Synagogue is the largest synagogue in Kyiv. For many decades the local and imperial authorities forbade the construction of a monumental place of Jewish worship in Kyiv, as they feared that this would facilitate the growth of the Jewish community in Kyiv, which, being a big trading and industrial city, would then become an important Jewish religious center. nIn 1895, permission was given to build a synagogue in the Podil district, a poor quarter of Kyiv. The location was however too far from the city center where the wealthy Jews lived such that they could not walk there on Sabbath.