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Already in the 18th century there was probably a prayer room which was possibly established in the house Stiegelgasse 25, which later became antechamber to the synagogue newly built in 1841. For years the Jewish community collected the funds for a new synagogue building, which was approved by the authorities in April 1840 and built in the following months. The synagogue was built in Moorish style ("beautifully copied oriental style") and was solemnly consecrated on August 27, 1841 by District Rabbi Dr. Sobernheim from Bingen .

At the beginning of the 19th century there was synagogue of unknown year of construction present. It was located on the upper floor in the back of a private house built entirely of wood (by Jakob Lützel). On the first floor below the synagogue was a cowshed.   
 

Already at the beginning of the 19th century a prayer room may have been established. Around 1840 a synagogue was built, which was the worship center of the community until its destruction during the November pogrom in 1938. The synagogue had two high round-arched windows on the street side. On the left side - seen from the street - was the synagogue courtyard, from which a small staircase led into the building. 

In 1741 the Jewish community bought a house on the property Östlicher Graben 19. On it 1749-57 a synagogue was built. The building was renovated several times until the 20th century. The character as a late Baroque synagogue building was preserved. To this day, a wooden flat barrel of the prayer hall decorated with stucco rosettes can be seen In the course of the 19th century, the synagogue was renovated several times and adapted to the needs of the time.

The Jewish religious community in Soest had a synagogue built in Osthofenstraße in 1822 and subsequently consecrated it. Until then, the services of the community were held in private houses. One of these prayer rooms was located in the house of the Stern family in Thomästraße.

In 1860, the congregation had a schoolhouse built next to the synagogue in Osthofenstraße. Sixty years later, the synagogue was expanded to make room for worshippers who came to Soest from the nearby region.

The construction of the synagogue in Komturstraße took place only in 1851/52, before that a private house served the Jewish community as a religious center, but over time it had become too small for the growing community. The synagogue was built in North German style with red bricks. Forty years later, the synagogue was rebuilt and consecrated, and a school and community hall were also built alongside it.

The synagogue in the Annaturmstraße in Euskirchen was inaugurated in 1856. The Jewish community had held its services in private houses before the synagogue was built.

The Düsseldorf Jewish community was able to inaugurate the synagogue in Kasernenstraße as early as 1787. However, it proved to be too small within a short time. Since the Jewish community was put on an equal footing with the rest of the city's population in political terms in the middle of the 19th century, the synagogue community officially came into being and work began on erecting a new building for the synagogue on the same site.

Already in the 14th century Jews lived in Detmold, who received letters of protection against payment, which secured their permanent settlement. The oldest preserved letter of protection dates back to the year 1500.

The Jewish community in Detmold used the half-timbered synagogue on Exterstraße from 1742 to 1905. At the beginning of the 20th century, the synagogue was built in Lortzingstraße and the old synagogue was sold to innkeeper Wilhelm Schwindt for 19,000 marks.

The synagogue building was built under the compromise that it would not be visible from the street.