Great Synagogue Explained

Great Synagogue or Grand Synagogue may refer to current or former synagogues in the following countries;

Algeria

• Great Synagogue (Oran), converted into a mosque in 1975

Australia

• Great Synagogue (Sydney), opened in 1878

Belarus

• Great Synagogue (Grodno)

Belgium

• Great Synagogue of Europe, built Brussels in 1878, dedicated as the Synagogue of Europe in 2008

Czech Republic

• Great Synagogue (Plzeň), the world's fourth largest synagogue

Denmark

• Great Synagogue (Copenhagen)

Georgia

• Great Synagogue (Tbilisi)

Hungary

• Dohány Street Synagogue the Great Synagogue (Nagy Zsinagóga) of Budapest, Europe's largest and the world's fourth largest synagogue.

Israel

• Belz Great Synagogue, in Jerusalem, the second-largest synagogue in the world
• Great Synagogue (Jerusalem)
• Great Synagogue (Petah Tikva), completed in 1900
• Great Synagogue (Tel Aviv), opened in 1926

Italy

• Great Synagogue (Florence)
• Great Synagogue (Rome), the largest synagogue in Rome

Lithuania

• Great Synagogue (Vilna), destroyed during and after World War II

Netherlands

• Great Synagogue (Deventer)

Poland

• Great Synagogue (Piotrków Trybunalski)

Former synagogues

• 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

• Great Synagogue (Constanța), disused
• Great Synagogue (Iaşi)

Sweden

• Great Synagogue of Stockholm

Ukraine

• Great Choral Synagogue (Kyiv)

Former synagogues

• 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

• Great Synagogue (Gibraltar), oldest synagogue on the Iberian Peninsula
• Great Synagogue of London, destroyed by aerial bombing in the London Blitz in 1941

Museums

• 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

• 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.

See also

• New Synagogue (disambiguation)
• Old Synagogue (disambiguation)