Founded in 1842
Ukraine, Lviv, Lviv Region
In 1838, after a meeting of Lviv rabbi Jacob Orenstein with a Ruzhyn tzaddik Israel Friedman, the attitude of Lviv residents to Hasideans changed for positive. There appeared a new Hasidic direction “Hadashym” (innovators), the supporters of which in 1840 opened a Talmud Torab[1] at the crossroads of Vuhilna Street and St. Theodore Square. And several years later, in 1842 — 1844 the “Hadashym” synagogue was built at the expense of Lviv merchant Jakob Glancer, therefore it has one more name — “Jacob Glancer Shul”. In 1844 the Jakob Glancer synagogue was the second by size after the Large City Synagogue. The synagogue was built together with a two-storey Talmud Torab, and two tiers of galleries for women were arranged in the prayer hall. In the period of the Nazi occupation the premises hosted a horse stable, and after the war — a gym. That is the only one out of ten synagogues of Krakow periphery preserved after the war. After the war the synagogue was restored and functioned until 1962. It was visited by the representatives of the diplomatic missions of Japan and the USA. On May 19, 1958 the synagogue in Vuhilna Street was visited by the Ambassador of Israel Avigdor.