The sugar magnate and philanthropist Lazar Brodsky financed the Brodsky Synagogue, and Georgiy Shleifer was the architect. It was built between 1897 and 1898. Authorities had long barred construction of monumental Jewish houses of worship in Kyiv, so the petition submitted only a side-view drawing that resembled a private mansion. The article calls it an Aesopian synagogue.
The article describes the style as Romanesque Revival, with a design that echoed some Moorish Revival synagogues, such as the Leopoldstädter Tempel in Vienna. It resembles a classical basilica and is the second-largest synagogue in Kyiv.
Soviet authorities closed it in 1926, and it later served as a puppet theater. It was renovated and reopened as a synagogue in 2000.
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