New Great Synagogue

The synagogue was built in 1919, shortly after the unification of the Jewish communities of the Austrian and russian parts of the town after the collapse of Austria-Hungary and the transfer of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Kingdom of Romania. At that time the town`s Jewish population counted about five thousand people who constituted the community of one large and eight smaller synagogues. After World War II, Holocaust and the post-war Sovietization of the town, the Jewish religious life in Novoselytsia came in decline. The neglected synagogue building was made into the Palace of Young Pioneers, which functioned until the early 1990s. Since then the building has stood unoccupied. In 2009, a team of art restorers from Kyiv rediscovered the old wall paintings in the former synagogue.