Profaned synagogue in Uhříněvsi

The synagogue in Uhříněves is a former Jewish house of prayer and is located on Přátelství-Straße. It was built between 1847 and 1848 in the late classicist style to replace an older wooden house of prayer. Services were held in the synagogue until 1939.

After the Second World War, the city of Uhříněves took over the synagogue building and initially used it as a warehouse from 1949 onwards.

A conversion into a laundry took place at a later date.

In 1995, the building was returned to Prague's Jewish community, which now rents it out for commercial purposes as a store and apartments.

In early 1942, the Nazis deported 46 Jews from Uhříněves and 341 from the surrounding villages to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. From Theresienstadt they were deported to Auschwitz, Treblinka and other extermination camps. Of the 387 Jews originally deported, only 42 survived.