Synagogue

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.

In 1938, the Jewish community received the requirement to demolish the synagogue itself within a week and to pay a fine of 800 Reichsmark.

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