The Kletsk (Great) Synagogue is an unexploited synagogue in Kletsk in the area of modern Gagarina Street (formerly Vilenskaya, Zhidovskaya). In total, at least three synagogues were built in Kletsk [2] .
| Synagogue | |
| Dumpling Synagogue (Large) | |
|---|---|
| Belor. Dumpling Sinagoga | |
 Synagogue on Vilensky Vulitsy, 1923 | |
| A country |  Belarus |
| City | Dumpling |
| Denomination | Judaism |
| Architectural style | Baroque |
| Established | 1796 [1] (1786 [2] ) |
| Construction | 1796 [1] (1786 [2] ) |
| Status | not preserved |
| condition | destroyed during the Great Patriotic War |
Content
- 1 History
- 2 Chief Rabbis of Kletsk [1]
- 3 Architecture
- 4 Sources
- 5 notes
History
The first Jews settled in Kletsk in the 16th century [1] . So, Kletsk is indicated in the message of the authorities of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ( 1529 ), as a settlement where Jewish communities exist.
In 1623, the dumpling kagal became part of the Pinsk kagal district (decree of the Lithuanian waad ). In 1766, there were 29 payers in the dumpling kagal [1] .
In the first half of the 18th century a beta-midrash was built in Kletsk, and in 1796 the main synagogue was founded. According to the census for 1847, 2138 Jews lived in Kletsk, and 3415 lived in 1897. This amounted to 72.9% of the total population of the city [1] .
At the beginning of the XX century in Kletsk operated:
- Society for Poverty Allowance
- Male private Jewish school
- Three synagogues
Yeshiva Etz Chaim moved to Kletsk from Slutsk in 1921 . The construction of the yeshiva lasted from 1927 to 1929 .
Chief Rabbis of Kletsk [1]
- Until 1762 - Michael Eisenstadt
- from 1762 to 1795 - Moshe Eisenstadt
- since 1860 - Eli'ezer-Zalman Graevsky
- since 1876 - Eli'ezer Strashun
Architecture
The basis of the spatial-spatial solution of the synagogue was created by the traditional roomy rectangular room. The entrance from the side of the street led to the semi-basement floor, deepened into the ground. Organization of the entrance with a deepening and lowering of the field level, as already noted, is one of the long-standing traditions of synagogue architecture. With the help of corner and wall pilasters, all four walls of the synagogue were divided into three parts, the middle one was wider than the others. At the basement level, on the main facade there were a number of small rectangular windows: two on the left, two windows and an entrance door in the middle and one window on the right. The entrance was indicated by an arched sandric. There were no more windows in the walls at the level of the basement.
At the level of the second tier in the deep niches of thick walls there were windows with a beam end: three in each wall. The walls were enlarged by a wide cornice, reminiscent of the nature of the profile of the Doric order. The left corner of the building from the courtyard was decorated with powerful buttresses with openings for passage. Obviously, buttresses here were part of a stone fence and some outbuildings.
The gable roof of the synagogue was located between two curved high gables that play a major role in shaping the architectural image of the building. The flexible profile of the pediments is emphasized by the eaves. An oval dormer window complements the dynamics of the round lines of the pediments. Local historians at the end of the 19th century noted that the pediment of the main facade was decorated with the heraldic emblems of the Radziwills. In the photograph of the 1920s, on the pediment of the main facade, frames painted on plaster are seen around a window with arrows in the corners. The dumpling synagogue was destroyed during the Great Patriotic War.
- Lokotko A.I. [2]