Sports Palace

A preventive claim was filed in the District Court of Vilnius City to prevent reconstruction works on the territory of the Concert and Sports Palace that would desecrate the Old Šnipiškės (Piramont) Jewish Cemetery and the human remains surrounding the sports palace in all directions, and mixed into...

Fragments of Jewish gravestones, which were used for construction during the Soviet era, are being delivered to the territory of a former Jewish cemetery on Olandų Street from various locations of the Lithuanian capital.

The Vilnius Sports Palace, which has been built on an old Jewish cemetery, is not an appropriate location for a Museum of Jewish History, says Andrew Baker of the American Jewish Committee.

The Vilnius Gaon State Jewish Museum has expressed astonishment over the Lithuanian administration's plans of founding a new Museum of Jewish History in or next to the reconstructed Vilnius Concert and Sports Palace.

Lithuania's Financial Crime Investigation Service on Tuesday conducted searches in the premises of Irdaiva, one of the country's largest construction companies, as part of the probe of fraud suspicions in public procurement deals. Irdaiva's CEO and sole owner Irmantas Kubilius has been detained.

The former president of the Lithuanian Football Federation has been revealed as the owner of an offshore company that handled million-dollar transactions and owned the Sports Palace in Vilnius, according to the Panama Papers leaked from the law firm Mossack Fonseca.

Over the last year, the Lithuanian government began focusing more on preserving Jewish heritage and grave sites, according to Faina Kukliansky, the chair of the Jewish Community of Lithuania.

Built within the territory of a former Jewish cemetery, the Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports will host conferences after its reconstruction, and not concerts, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Wednesday.

Israel has no objections to Lithuania about the renovation project of the Concert and Sports Palace in central Vilnius which is located near an old Jewish cemetery, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says.

The Jewish Community of Lithuania has dismissed its rabbi Chaim Burstein after the community's chairwoman accused him of spreading lies about the Šnipiškių cemetery in Vilnius.

The Lithuanian Architects Union on Monday hosted a public discussion on one of the major development sites in central Vilnius, the Sports Palace and Žalgiris Stadium.

The Lithuanian government on Monday agreed in principle to grant the status of an economic project of national importance to the planned conversion of the Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports, a now derelict building that was built more than 40 years ago on the site of a former Jewish cemetery, to ...

Members of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe said after meeting with Lithuania's prime minister that they had no critical remarks to the government in connection to the plans to renovate the former Sports Palace building built on an old Jewish cemetery.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said that Vilnius Concerts and Sports Palace, a currently abandoned modernist structure in central Vilnius, will become a modern congress centre by 2017.