On the edge of the city park on Otto-Müller-Strasse, the Jewish community built its house of worship, the Görlitz synagogue, in 1909-1911 in impressive Art Nouveau style. The synagogue, inaugurated in 1911, is the only one in Saxony that survived the pogrom night of 1938 undamaged and has been preserved until today.

The Dresden Synagogue or Semper Synagogue, today also called Old Synagogue was the synagogue of the Jewish community in Dresden, inaugurated in 1840 and destroyed in the November pogrom in 1938. The neo-Romanesque building designed by Gottfried Semper was the first modern synagogue to be uniformly designed inside in orientalizing style and served mainly Edwin Oppler as a model for numerous other synagogue buildings.