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Brest Synagogues

The Great Synagogue
The emblematic synagogue of Brest for the last 100 years was the old Great Synagogue, Di Groyseh shul, located near the center of the city:

Brest Old Great Synagogue
Di Groyser Shul.

In photos the building may appear as a regular octagon, but in reality its form was that of a square with truncated corners. The building was on Politseyskaya (after WWII: Sovietskaya) Street. See also here for more details about this street.

Great Synagogue
after the fire of 1915.
Text: The Synagogue of the Israelites

In the 1970's, a circular glass facade was built around the orginal shul. This is its appearance in 1999:

The Cinema Belarus
Sovietskaya Street
Circa 1999

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