Opava Synagogue

Opava Synagogue
Czech: Synagoga v Opavě
A postcard of the former synagogue in 1900
Religion
Affiliation	Judaism (former)
Ecclesiastical or organisational status	Synagogue (1895–1938)
Status	Destroyed
Location
Location	Opava, Silesia
Country	Czech Republic
Location of the destroyed synagogue in the Czech Republic
Geographic coordinates	49°56′21″N 17°53′49″E
Architecture
Architect(s)	Jakob Gartner
Type	Synagogue architecture
Style	Romanesque Revival Moorish Revival
Completed	1895
Destroyed	1938
Dome(s)	Three

The Opava Synagogue (Czech: Synagoga v Opavě), or Tempel, was a former Jewish synagogue, located in Opava (German: Troppau), Silesia, in the Czech Republic.

Designed by Jakob Gartner in the Romanesque Revival and Moorish Revival styles, the synagogue was completed in 1895.

The synagogue was destroyed in 1938, when it was burned and levelled to the ground by the local fanaticized Sudeten Germans. It was one of the most distinctive structures of its kind in prewar Czechoslovakia.

The name of the street where the tempel originally stood still bears the name “U synagogy”. The neighbouring rabbinical house, built in the same architectonical style, survived the Nazi rampage and is preserved.

See also

• History of the Jews in the Czech Republic