Grodno. The building of the Hayem Adam Prayer School.

      The building of the former Hayem Adam Jewish prayer school is located on Bolshaya Troitskaya Street in Grodno. The monument was erected in 1875 during the time of the Russian Empire in the eclectic style.

          There is information that the building did not belong to a prayer school, but to a synagogue called Hay Adam Hagadol. They also write in historical sources the name of the synagogue Beit Hakneset Hagadol. The prayer school has a capacity for several hundred people. Famous figures studied at this school: physicist Starovolsky and poet Naidus.

           Leib Naidus (1890-1918) was a Jewish translator and poet. He was born in Grodno into a family of entrepreneurs. He wrote his works in several languages: Yiddish, Belarusian, Russian and Polish.

           The building has the status of historical and cultural value and is an architectural monument. The building is stone, one-story, plastered. The antique decor has partially survived to our time.  

            After the Peace of Riga in 1921, the city of Grodno was under Polish rule until 1939, before the arrival of Soviet power. During this period, Hirsch Farber worked as an administrator at a Jewish school.

           After the Great Patriotic War, the building was turned over to the sports hall and dormitory of the FZA school. Now the building belongs to the Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus. The monument has been restored in recent years.