Former
Synagogue Building at Communist Street 106
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This
abandoned building standing at Communist Sreet 106 was
formerly one of Shklov's Synagogues. Built towards
the end of the 19th century, and used as a synagogue until
World War II, in the period after the war in the
1950's-60's this building was used as a veterinary
laboratory. According to a local historian,
during that period Jews used to gather for secret worship
in this building, as the Chief Veterinary Doctor at that
time was Jewish, and used to permit the Jewish Community
to use the synagogue secretly. Now it stands
abandoned, a tragic testimony to a population that once
was, and now is gone. It is currently
privately owned, reported changed hands about a year ago,
the new owner rebuilt the ceiling, but has done nothing
else and the building remains forlorn.
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Former Synagogue
Building with Flying Buttresses at 99 Dikuna Street
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The old synagogue
building with flying butresses located at 99 Dikuna
Street, near the edge of town, is the oldest building in
Shklov. Its old bricks are from the period of
the Great Lithuanian Kingdom (Veliki Knyajestvo Litovski).
The building served as a synagogue until the
Revolution, and then was shut down. After World War
II it housed a school. The building is currently
used as an Auto School. The side
building that was once a Jewish School (Cheder) is now a tool
shop. This building is on the State List of
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Former
Synagogue Building Currently a Dairy Factory on
Internatsionalnaya 64
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The green building with
yellow columns was once Shklov's main
synagogue. Built at the end of the 18th
century, this building once housed the great Choral
Synagogue of Shklov. Reportedly, there was
also a Jewish School in the building in the 1930's.
Now it is used by a dairy factory which produces milk,
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The Rabbi's
House at the corner of Internatsionalnaya and Pochtovaya
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In an ironic turn of
events, the building that was once the Rabbi's home now
houses a shop selling funeral supplies, such as coffins
and memorial floral arrangements for decorating
gravesites. Orthodox crosses are for
sale, and a picture of Jesus adorns the wall.
Though current residents of Shklov refer to this building
as "the Rabbi's House," according to information in the
Minsk Jewish Museum, this building was a synagogue build
in the end of the 19th century. The author of this
website thus presumes that following the closure of the
synagogue in the Soviet period, the Rabbi continued to
dwell in this building. We were told by a Shklov
resident that during WWII, the Germans set up headquarters
in this building and used the basement as a prison for
Russian prisoners of war.
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