Premises designed as service, and even cellars were used as chapels. In addition, because of the distance that exceeds the permitted on Saturday for hiking transition Jews margins were not able to perform religious rites. During the 10 years the Jews of St. Petersburg margins applied to the authorities for permission to reopen the Chapel closed in 1894 after the construction of synagogues, and invariably refused. In 1916, Thus, Jews, directly or indirectly, related to Jewish religious life, the center of which was a synagogue in the capital, there were about 8000 people, not including members of their families, as well as Jews praying at home