Synagogue
has been operating since 1997
From history...
At the beginning of the 20th century, the rabbi of the Tiraspol district was I. N. Zeiliger. Jews attended synagogues and prayer houses. At the beginning of the 20th century, one synagogue in Tiraspol was located along Krasny Lane towards Pushkinskaya Street, between the girls' gymnasium and the auxiliary premises of the zemstvo council. Another synagogue was located along Dvoryanskaya Street, behind Krasnoselsky's drugstore towards Evreyskaya Street (now Vosstaniya), and the third was on the corner of Dvoryanskaya and Evreyskaya Streets. Between Chasovennaya and Krasnoyarskaya Streets along Sobornaya, there was another synagogue. The same synagogue was on the corner of Sobornaya Street at its intersection with Remeslennaya.
The total number of synagogues and prayer houses can be found in a telegram from Kherson Governor V. G. Vetchinin in November 1916:
«In view of the petition of the Tiraspol district rabbi Zeiliger, I propose to free the eleven synagogues and prayer houses in the city of Tiraspol from billeting troops, in exchange for which the Jewish community undertakes to equip at its own expense five other residential premises, not included in the 1910 list, to accommodate 200 people. I propose to find the remaining six premises, about which I should be telegraphed".
Our days
Today, there is one synagogue in Tiraspol. Members of the Jewish community gather there weekly.
On festive occasions, various events are held in the building of the Tiraspol synagogue.
