The idea to create Menorah center, as one of the biggest such centers in the world, belongs to the President of the Dnipropetrovsk Jewish community Gennadiy Bogolyubov Europe and the President of the United Jewish Community of Ukraine Ihor Kolomoyskyi. They both provided full financial support for the project implementation. The supposed concept of the Menorah center construction is to combine three functional elements in one complex building.
General description
The center is built in the shape of a seven-branched synagogue candelabrum. It consists of seven made of precious marble towers, highest one of which is 20 stories tall. The construction has total floor area of about 50,000 sq.m. There are synagogue, museums, office premises, shopping spaces, publishing house, art galleries, kosher restaurants and cafes, conference halls, banquet halls, a luxury hotel, youth hostel, classrooms, tourist information center, visa center of Israel. General project design was made by architect Alexander Sorin. Signs and labels in Menorah are written in four languages - English, Ukrainian, Russian and Hebrew. The official address of the center is Sholom-Aleikhema St., 4/26, Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, 49000, Ukraine. One of the center's declared priorities is to use business profits for funding charitable projects. The presumed purpose is to serve Jewish community of about 30,000 in Dnipro and its other population disregarding background.
Chaim Chesler — founder of Limmud in the former Soviet Union:
Beth Moskowitz — representative of Boston’s Jewish Community Relation Council:
Recent activities
Business forum “Ukraine is a country of entrepreneurs” for young business people was hosted by the Menora center on November 24, 2016. More than 400 representatives of small and medium-size enterprises took part in that forum. The Ukrainian Association of Patriots held there its conference and a general meeting of supporters from all over Ukraine in November, 2016. Some Ukrainian Jew refugees from armed conflict zone in Donetsk and Luhansk regions use the Menorah center facilities for resettlement and rehabilitation.
It is the largest in the former Soviet Union. It covers 3,000 sq.m. and use up-to-date technologies. The museum has the information center, libraries, classrooms.
Research and Education Center
Institute for the Study of Holocaust "Tkuma".
Hotels
"Menorah Hotel" - 4-star international hotel.
It is the only one in the CIS, which gives an opportunity to all observing shabbat.
"7 Days City Hotel" - 16 rooms in minimalistic style.
