Great Synagogue
Appearance
Great Synagogue or Grand Synagogue may refer to current or former synagogues in the following countries;
Algeria
[edit]- Great Synagogue (Oran), converted into a mosque in 1975
Australia
[edit]- Great Synagogue (Sydney), opened in 1878
Belarus
[edit]Belgium
[edit]- Great Synagogue of Europe, built Brussels in 1878, dedicated as the Synagogue of Europe in 2008
Czech Republic
[edit]- Great Synagogue (Plzeň), the world's fourth largest synagogue
Denmark
[edit]Georgia
[edit]Hungary
[edit]- Dohány Street Synagogue the Great Synagogue (Nagy Zsinagóga) of Budapest, Europe's largest and the world's fourth largest synagogue.
Israel
[edit]- Ades Synagogue, in Jerusalem, also known as the Great Synagogue Ades of the Glorious Aleppo Community
- Belz Great Synagogue, in Jerusalem, the second-largest synagogue in the world
- Jerusalem Great Synagogue, completed in 1982
- Great Synagogue (Petah Tikva), completed in 1900
- Great Synagogue (Tel Aviv), opened in 1926
Italy
[edit]- Great Synagogue (Florence)
- Great Synagogue (Rome), the largest synagogue in Rome
Lithuania
[edit]- Great Synagogue (Vilna), destroyed during and after World War II
Netherlands
[edit]Poland
[edit]Former synagogues
[edit]- Great Synagogue (Białystok), destroyed in 1941
- Great Synagogue (Danzig), destroyed in 1939
- Great Synagogue (Jasło), destroyed during World War lI
- Great Synagogue (Katowice), destroyed in 1939
- Great Synagogue (Łódź), destroyed in 1939
- Great Synagogue (Łomża), destroyed during World War II
- Great Synagogue (Oświęcim), destroyed in 1939
- Great Synagogue (Warsaw), destroyed in 1943 after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Romania
[edit]Sweden
[edit]Tunisia
[edit]Ukraine
[edit]Former synagogues
[edit]- Great Synagogue (Berehove), abandoned and repurposed
- Great Synagogue (Bila Tserkva), abandoned and repurposed
- Great Synagogue (Brody), abandoned
- Great Synagogue (Husiatyn), abandoned
- Great Synagogue (Lutsk), abandoned and repurposed
- Great City Synagogue (Lviv), destroyed
- Great Suburb Synagogue, Lviv, destroyed
- Great Synagogue (Pidhaitsi), demolished
- Great Synagogue (Velyki Mosty), abandoned
United Kingdom
[edit]- Great Synagogue (Gibraltar), oldest synagogue on the Iberian Peninsula
- Great Synagogue of London, destroyed by aerial bombing in the London Blitz in 1941
Museums
[edit]- The historical Great Synagogue in Amsterdam, now part of the Joods Historisch Museum (Jewish History Museum)
- Włodawa Great Synagogue, built between 1769 and 1774, now a museum complex in Poland
Synagogues in antiquity
[edit]- Great Assembly, or Anshei Knesset HaGedolah, sometimes referred to as the Great Synagogue, of Temple times.
- Great Synagogue of Baghdad, an ancient building in present-day Iraq
- Sardis Synagogue, Manisa, Turkey - The complex destroyed in AD 616 by the Sassanian-Persians.