The world's largest Jewish community center will open in Dniepropetrovsk on Tuesday, the CIS Federation of Jewish Communities told Interfax-Religion.
Among the ceremony participants will be Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, Israeli Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Israeli Information and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuly Edelstein, CIS Federation of Jewish Communities President Levi Levayev, and prominent religious and public figures from the countries of the former USSR.
The Menora Jewish center is comprised of a synagogue, a Holocaust museum, a banqueting hall for 2,000 persons, a mikvah, a fashionable hotel, kosher restaurants, a library, and buildings for conferences and seminars.
The construction of the center was financed by two Jewish businessmen: Gennady Bogolyubov (president of the Dniepropetrovsk Jewish community) and Igor Kolomoisky.