A modern photo of the old Hasidic synagogue at the intersection of Vugolna Street and St. Theodore Square, which was built in 1842-44 at the expense of Lviv merchant Jacob Glazner, from which its name comes - "Jacob Glazner Shul". The synagogue has always been the center of social life of the local community. The synagogue was built in a complex with Talmud-Torah - a secondary Jewish school. Talmud-Torah appeared on this site back in 1840, since the direction of Hasidism that it represented was called "Chadashim" (i.e. "Innovators"). The innovation was that the hadashim combined the study of the science of the founder of Hasidism, Israel Balshemtov, with the traditional Talmud and Tanakh.

A mikvah, or ritual bath, appeared in the extension to the synagogue only after 1959, when the synagogue was the center of traditional Jewish life in Western Ukraine. The history of the synagogue's activities in 1944-1962 (before its closure at the instigation of the KGB) is the history of the 30,000-strong post-war Jewish community of Lviv. During the Nazi occupation, the building housed a stable, and after the war, a gym. This is the only one of ten synagogues in the Krakow suburbs that has survived to this day. The outer walls of the building were renovated in the 1990s, and the photo shows its condition after the renovation. The bricked-up window on the left is an external indicator of the location of the so-called Aron HaKodesh, which is an analog of the altar part in a Christian temple. The Torah, the sacred scripture of the Jews, was placed here.

Now the Sholem Aleichem Jewish Cultural Center is located here.

We thank our user, Mr. Joseph Helston, a prominent expert on Jewish Lviv, for the important clarifications.