Learn the history and cultural heritage of the jewish community of saint petersburg by paying a visit tothe grand choral synagogue yesod thejewish community center and russian museum of ethnography fancy the second largest synagogue in europe which was built in 1888 and consecrated in 1893 despite the fact that the grand choral synagogue was bombed during the siege of leningrad the jewish community has survived during this horrid period and has been restoring itssacramental place within