The Moscow Choral Synagogue is one of the main synagogues in Russia and in the former Soviet Union. It is located in central Basmanny District at 10 Bolshoy Spasogolinischevsky Lane, close to Kitai-Gorod Metro station. Chief Rabbi Adolf Shayevich is its spiritual head.
Moscow Choral Synagogue
Synagogue's interior
Israeli ambassador to the Soviet Union Golda Meir surrounded by crowd of 50,000 Jews near the Synagogue on the first day of Rosh Hashanah in 1948.
Dome of the Synagogue
Roman Ivanovich Klein, born Robert Julius Klein was a Russian architect and educator, best known for his Neoclassical Pushkin Museum in Moscow. Klein, an eclectic, was one of the most prolific architects of his period, second only to Fyodor Schechtel. In the 1880s-1890s, he practiced Russian Revival and Neo-Gothic exteriors; in the 1900s, his knowledge of Roman and Byzantine classical architecture allowed him to integrate into the Neoclassical revival trend of that period.
Roman Klein 1890
Pushkin Museum, 1896-1912
TsUM Department Store
Nekrasov House, 20 Khlebny Lane