Babyn Yar Synagogue.

But now the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Foundation is planning a $100 million complex, of which a synagogue recently became the first building to open. SPIRITUAL ARCHITECTURE ONE OF THE worst atrocities of the Nazi regime took place in a ravine just four miles from the center of Kyiv, where, beginning on September 29, 1941, German soldiers killed more than 100,000 people, most of them Jewish. The synagogue was designed by Manuel Herz, a Basel-based architect who has designed a hospital in rural Eastern Senegal (record, June 2021) and a humanitarian who has devoted years to aiding the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara. [Extracted from the article]

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