Synagogue

In 1638, the wealthy Jewish merchant Isaak Jakubowicz (common name: Ajzyk Jekeles) received permission from the Polish King Władysław IV. Wasa granted permission to build a synagogue. This was completed in 1644.

It was repeatedly rebuilt over the years. During the German occupation of Poland in the Second World War, the building was destroyed and the bima was completely destroyed.

After the war, the interior was partially restored; in 1981, it was again destroyed by fire.

The synagogue was donated by the Jewish merchant and financier Wolf Popper in 1620. It was built in the Baroque style.

Today, the building houses a bookshop. All that remains of the former synagogue is the room layout.

The High Synagogue is located in a late Renaissance brick building on a rectangular floor plan. It was most likely built between 1556 and 1563. According to one hypothesis, the synagogue was built by Sephardic Jews following the example of the synagogues built in the Venetian ghetto. Another version states that the wealthy merchant Izrael obtained permission from King Sigismund II Augustus to build a synagogue in the second half of the 16th century. August for permission to build a synagogue and allegedly received it.

The Temple Synagogue is located on a corner plot on the corner of Miodowa and Podbrzezie streets. The building was constructed in 1860–1862 and is in the eclectic neo-Renaissance style with Moorish elements. On the richly decorated façade above the main entrance are black marble plaques with the Ten Commandments. On the façade and the side walls are two-part arcade windows with unique colorful stained glass from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The wall paintings with plant motifs have an oriental character.

The Kupa Synagogue, also known as the Synagogue of the Poor, is located in the historic Krakow district Kazimierz The simple synagogue from 1643 with baroque accents is located in the district that was reserved exclusively for the Jewish community from Krakow by King John I Albrecht in 1495. The synagogue was built from donations to the Jewish community (Kahal). Its name is derived from kupat, the Hebrew word for community treasury.

The Kupa Synagogue was destroyed by the Nazis during the Second World War and used for secular purposes until 1991.

The new synagogue in Moorish-Byzantine style was built in 1863/1864 on the same site as the synagogue on Judengasse (Häuserzeile on the western city wall), which was demolished at the beginning of 1860, and consecrated in 1864. After the deportation of the last remaining Jewish inhabitants of Mährisch Weißkirchen to concentration and extermination camps in 1942, the interior of the synagogue was donated to the Central Jewish Museum in Prague. The synagogue building itself was preserved and has been a protected cultural monument since 1988.

The Jewish Temple Königliche Weinberge stood in Sázavská in Prague-Vinohrady from 1896 to 1951. The building was hit by bombs during an accidental Allied air raid on Prague on February 14, 1945. American bombers mistook Prague for Dresden. However, the extent of the damage to the synagogue was largely due to the German occupying forces, who prevented the fire from being extinguished.

The synagogue was built in 1849. After 1930, it served as a Jewish orphanage and was eventually converted into an apartment building.

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.

The Michel Synagogue is a former Jewish house of prayer in Prague-Michle, on the banks of the Botič brook. It is one of the most interesting and most beautiful historical buildings in Prague-Michle and at the same time one of the few suburban synagogues that were not destroyed during the German occupation. From 1950, the Jewish Museum in Prague used the Michel Synagogue as a depository for Torah scrolls that the Nazis had brought to Prague from the destroyed and forcibly closed synagogues of all Jewish communities on the territory of the Protectorate.