Grand Choral Synagogue
Located in Saint Petersburg · Website: sinagoga.jeps.ru/ · Religious building
Wikipedia
The Grand Choral Synagogue of Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербургская Большая Хоральная Синагога, romanized: Sankt-Peterburgskaya Bolshaya Khoralnaya Sinagoga; Hebrew: בית הכנסת הכוראלי הגדול (סנקט פטרבורג)) is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 2 Lermontovskii Avenue, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The synagogue, the third-largest in Europe, is also known as the Great Choral Synagogue of Saint Petersburg and, since 2000, the Edmond J. Safra Grand Choral Synagogue, in honor of the late philanthropist, Edmond Safra. Sometimes it is simply referred to as the Grand Synagogue (Russian: Большая Синагога, romanized: Bolshaya Sinagoga).
The synagogue was designed by architects Lev Bakhman, Ivan Shaposhnikov, and Aleksei Malov in an eclectic mix of the Moorish Revival and Byzantine Revival styles, completed in 1888, and consecrated in December 1893. The Chief Rabbi of Saint Petersburg is Menachem Mendel Pewzner. The synagogue is a registered landmark and an architectural monument of federal importance, listed on the Russian cultural heritage register since 2001.