The Lviv progressive synagogue,
called Tempel (temple), was the first reformed synagogue in Galicia. It
was a monumental building in Neoclassicist
style, notable for its large dome;
unlike European progressive synagogues with their typical oriental and Moorish decorative motifs (Berlin, Vienna or Budapest),
it more resembled a Byzantine church. The Lviv
Tempel was destroyed by the Nazis in
the summer of 1941.
The Stadium
was built between 1933 and 1939 in a hilly part of Lviv known as the
Pylypivka Heights near the Jewish Cemetery on Kleparova. It was
owned by the leading Jewish Athletic Society in Galicia, the Hasmonea
Club, founded by Adolf Konn in 1908. During the Soviet period the
stadium was called Torpedo Stadium. It no longer serves as a sports
facility. A market was opened on the territory in the 1990s, working
there until 2008. Plans to reopen the stadium were never realized.
