Yaniv cemetery territory – former Beth Tahora (Jewish chapel)

In 1855, after the old Jewish cemetery at the Krakivske (Krakowska) suburb was closed by the Austrian authorities, new Jewish cemetery was founded near the Yanivska (Yanowska) road (now Shevchenka street) by the Kortumowa hill.

In 1856 a cemetery ritual chapel was built there at the expense of Yefroim Wiksel, a merchant. In 1875 a road called Pylykhovska (ul. Pilichowska, now Yeroshenka street) and leading to the cemetery was laid, and in 1890 a brick fence in the Neo-Romanesque style was constructed, which stretched along the street and has survived till today.

A lot of prominent members of Lviv's Jewish community were buried at the new cemetery, including Emmanuil Blummenfeld, one of the founders of the reformed synagogue, Maurycy Łazarus, the founder of the Jewish hospital, rabbis Bernard Lewenstein and Ezekiel Caro, Emil Byk, a religious community head and a champion of assimilation, Abraham Korkes, Herschon Zipper, and Leon Reich, who were the leaders of the Zionist movement in Lviv. There were also memorials to the victims of the November 1918 pogrom and to the fallen Jewish soldiers there.

In 1912-1913 a new cemetery chapel designed by well-known Lviv architects Roman Feliński, Michał Ulam, and Jerzy Grodyński was built near the main entrance to the Jewish cemetery from the Pylykhovska road (now Yeroshenka street). The walls of the chapel were decorated with paintings by Feliks Michał Wygrzywalski, a famous artist.

In 1943 the Nazis blew up the Beth Tahora and destroyed the two Jewish cemeteries. The stone tombstones, matsevas, were used to pave roads. In 1947, in place of the old cemetery, a market called Krakivsky was organized by the Soviet authorities. In 1962 the new cemetery was attached to the Yanivsky cemetery, and it still functions under the care of the Jewish community.