Tempel Synagogue in Ivano-Frankivsk, Neoclassical synagogue in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

The Tempel Synagogue is a stone building on Strachenykh Street, 7, combining Moorish style with Neo-Renaissance elements. Its entrance was on the west side through a vestibule into a main hall seating 300, surrounded on three sides by women's galleries. The eastern wall holds an apse that formerly housed the Aron ha-Kodesh. Four corner towers with onion domes decorated with Stars of David originally stood on the roof.

The building was designed by architect Wilhelm Stiassny in 1895 when the city was under Austro-Hungarian rule and called Stanisławów. Its construction reflected a period when the Jewish community in the region was strong and building such places of worship showed their growing presence.

The name Tempel marks it as a progressive synagogue, founded by members of the 1887 Society of Progress. Since the 1990s part of the building has belonged to the local Jewish community, which keeps a mikveh and a small dining room there and celebrates Shabbat and other holidays in it. The remaining rooms house a furniture shop.

The synagogue stands at Strachenykh Street 7, on the corner where a monument to executed Ukrainian patriots was erected in 2003. Only part of the building serves the Jewish community; the rest houses a furniture shop, so look for the prayer rooms rather than a single entrance. The main hall held 300 seats, entered from the west.

The building's upper floors now house a furniture shop, while the Jewish community uses part of the premises for a mikveh and a small dining room where members celebrate Shabbat and other holidays. Look for the 2003 monument to executed Ukrainian patriots beside the walls, where Gestapo men shot 27 members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in 1943.