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The Great Synagogue is a former Orthodox Jewish synagogue, located at 33 Karaimska Street, in the Jewish quarter of Lutsk (Polish: Łuck), in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. The congregation worshipped in the Ashkenazi rite.
The Great Synagogue is a former Orthodox Jewish synagogue, located at 33 Karaimska Street, in the Jewish quarter of Lutsk (Polish: Łuck), in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. The congregation worshipped in the Ashkenazi rite. The Renaissance fortress synagogue building was built in 1626 in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and it was the religious, educational and community centre of Lutsk Jews until the invasion of Poland in World War II. Partially destroyed in 1942, the synagogue was restored in the 1970s and was subsequently used as a sports club.
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Volhynia or Volynia ( voh-LIN-ee-ə; see #Names and etymology) is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between southeastern Poland, southwestern Belarus, and northwestern Ukraine. The borders of the region are not clearly defined, but in Ukraine it is roughly equivalent to Volyn Oblast, Rivne Oblast, western part of Zhytomyr Oblast and the northern parts of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast and Ternopil Oblast.
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The Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral (Ukrainian: Кафедральний костел Святих Апостолів Петра і Павла, Polish: Katedra Świętych Apostołów Piotra i Pawła), and its Jesuit college are national landmarks in Lutsk. The church and college were built for the Society of Jesus of Lutsk in the 17th century.
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