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Great Choral Synagogue

Belarus


The impeccably restored Great Synagogue is Hrodna's finest piece of art nouveau. It's an early-20th-century reconstruction of the original 16th-century synagogue on this site; drawings and photos within the cavernous interior depict its long history.


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