Great Synagogue (Zhovkva)

{{short description|Synagogue in Zhovkva, Ukraine}}

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| image = Żółkiew. Wielka synagoga (03).jpg

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| caption = Great Synagogue and Beit Midrash in Zhovkva,
between 1900 and 1925

| religious_affiliation = Judaism

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| rite = Nusach Ashkenaz

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| organisational_status = Synagogue

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| functional_status = Under restoration

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| location = Vulytsya Zaporizʹka, Zhovkva, Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast 80300

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| country = Ukraine

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| architect = Piotr Beber
{{nowrap|({{langx|uk|Петер Бебер}})}}

| architecture_type = Synagogue architecture

| architecture_style = {{ubl|Fortress synagogue|Renaissance|Baroque}}

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| funded_by = John III Sobieski

| general_contractor = Petro Beber

| established = 1624 {{small|(as a congregation)}}

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| year_completed = 1692

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| date_destroyed = 1941

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| footnotes = {{cite EJ|title=Zholkva|first=Aharon|last=Weiss|volume= |page= |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/zholkva}}{{cite journal |author=Boyko, O. |url=http://www.ifo.lviv.ua/anvsu/sc_hor/sh_pdf/2011_4/sh_0304_2011.pdf |title=The synagogue in Zhovkva: history and architectural development |journal=Ukr. J. Phys. Opt. |publisher=Ukrzakhidproektrestavratsiya Institute |location=Lviv, Ukraine |volume=12 |number=2 |pages=18–46 |date=24 September 2011 |access-date=7 April 2024 }}{{cite web |author=Gąsiorowski, Stefan |translator=Chaim Chernikov |url=https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Zhovkva |title=Zhovkva |work=The YIVO Encyclopeida of Jews in Eastern Europe |publisher=YIVO Institute for Jewish Research |date=2010 |access-date=7 April 2024 }}

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The Great Synagogue is a Jewish synagogue, located on Vulytsya Zaporizʹka , in Zhovkva (Zółkiew), in the Lviv Raion of Lviv Oblast, of Ukraine. It was built between 1692 and 1698 with a financial loan from King John III Sobieski, and was hence also known as the Sobieski Shul.