Brodsky Synagogue, Orthodox synagogue in Pecherskyi District, Ukraine

Brodsky Synagogue is a place of worship in the Pecherskyi District featuring Moorish Revival architectural details throughout. Its facade is divided into three sections with a raised central portion flanked by lower side wings, creating a balanced composition.

Built from 1897 to 1898 with funding from sugar magnate Lazar Brodsky, the structure was designed by architect Georg Schleifer. It was created to serve the expanding Jewish community in Kyiv at that time.

The synagogue is named after Lazar Brodsky, the sugar magnate who financed it and whose fiftieth birthday coincided with its opening in 1898. Its choral rite, with a choir and cantor, followed the model of the great synagogues of St. Petersburg, Moscow and Odessa. The current rabbi is Moshe Reuven Azman.

The synagogue stands at the corner of Shota Rustaveli Street in the Pecherskyi District, a short walk from the Palats Sportu metro station. Men cover their heads inside; the building is an active Orthodox congregation, so visits are best timed around services rather than between them.

The synagogue's 1898 opening was timed to Lazar Brodsky's 50th birthday. To get around the ban on new monumental synagogues, Brodsky and rabbi Evsey Tsukerman petitioned the Governing Senate and submitted only a side-view drawing that made the building look like a private mansion; permission was granted, making it an Aesopian synagogue.