Great Synagogue or Grand Synagogue may refer to current or former synagogues in the following countries:
Algeria
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Great Synagogue (Oran)
The Abdellah Ben Salem Mosque () is a mosque in Oran, Algeria. Formerly the Great Synagogue of Oran (), it was the largest synagogue in Africa. Also known as ''Temple Israélite'', it was located on Boulevard Joffre, currently Boulevard Maata Mo ...
, converted into a mosque in 1975
Australia
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Great Synagogue (Sydney)
The Great Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish congregation located in a large heritage-listed synagogue at 187a Elizabeth Street in the Sydney central business district in the City of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia.
The congregation is the ...
, opened in 1878
Belarus
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Great Synagogue (Grodno)
Belgium
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Great Synagogue of Europe, built Brussels in 1878, dedicated as the Synagogue of Europe in 2008
Czech Republic
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Great Synagogue (Plzeň)
The Great Synagogue (, ) is a traditional Czech Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Plzeň, in the Czech Republic. The synagogue is the second largest synagogue in Europe and fourth largest in the world. It is an active synagogue with ...
, the world's fourth largest synagogue
Denmark
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Great Synagogue (Copenhagen)
The Great Synagogue is an Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Judaism, Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at Krystalgade 12, in Copenhagen, Denmark. The congregation was formed at some stage during the 17th century and their first synagogue comp ...
Georgia
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Great Synagogue (Tbilisi)
Hungary
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Dohány Street Synagogue
The Dohány Street Synagogue ( ; ; ), also known as the Great Synagogue () or Tabakgasse Synagogue (), is a Neolog Judaism, Neolog Judaism, Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Dohány utca, Dohány Street in Erzsébetváros (VIIth dis ...
the Great Synagogue (''Nagy Zsinagóga'') of Budapest, Europe's largest and the world's fourth largest synagogue.
Israel
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Ades Synagogue
The Ades Synagogue (), also known as the Great Synagogue Ades of the Glorious Aleppo Community, is an Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Judaism, Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 1 Beer Sheba Street, in the Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusale ...
, in Jerusalem, also known as the Great Synagogue Ades of the Glorious Aleppo Community
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Belz Great Synagogue
The Belz Great Synagogue () is an Hasidic Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 7 Binat Yisas'har Street, in the Kiryat Belz neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. Designed by Aaron Ostreicher and completed in 2002, the synagogue was buil ...
, in Jerusalem, the second-largest synagogue in the world
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Jerusalem Great Synagogue
The Jerusalem Great Synagogue () is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 56 King George Street, Jerusalem, Israel. Different parts of the congregation worship in the Ashkenazi and Sephardic rites.
History
As early as 192 ...
, completed in 1982
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Great Synagogue (Petah Tikva), completed in 1900
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Great Synagogue (Tel Aviv), opened in 1926
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Western Wall
The Western Wall (; ; Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: ''HaKosel HaMa'arovi'') is an ancient retaining wall of the built-up hill known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount of Jerusalem. Its most famous section, known by the same name ...
completed in 19 BC
Italy
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Great Synagogue (Florence)
The Great Synagogue of Florence () is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, that is located at Via Luigi Carlo Farini 4, in Florence, in Tuscany, Italy. Designed in the Italian and Moorish Revival styles, the synagogue was completed i ...
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Great Synagogue (Rome), the largest synagogue in Rome
Lithuania
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Great Synagogue (Vilna), destroyed during and after World War II
Netherlands
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Great Synagogue (Deventer)
The Great Synagogue of Deventer () is a former Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at Golstraat 23, in the city of Deventer, in the Overijssel region of The Netherlands. Designed by J. A. Mulock Houwer in a mix of the Renaissance Revival ...
Poland
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Great Synagogue (Piotrków Trybunalski)
The Great Synagogue () was a former Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 29 Jerizilimska Street, in Piotrków Trybunalski, in the Łódź Voivodeship of Poland. Designed by David Friedlander and completed in 1793, the synagogue ...
Former synagogues
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Great Synagogue (Białystok), destroyed in 1941
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Great Synagogue (Danzig)
The Great Synagogue (, ), was a synagogue of the Jewish Community of Danzig in the city of Danzig, in what was then the German Empire, later the Free City of Danzig, and is now Gdańsk, Poland. It was built in 1885–1887 on Reitbahnstraße, n ...
, destroyed in 1939
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Great Synagogue (Jasło)
The Great Synagogue () was a former Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, that was located on Karol Szajnocha Street, in the Szajnocha Square, in Jasło, in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship of Poland. Completed in 1905, the synagogue served as ...
, destroyed during World War lI
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Great Synagogue (Katowice)
The Great Synagogue (; ) was a former Jewish congregation and synagogue, that was located on Uferstrasse (contemporary Mickiewicza Street), in Katowice (Kattowitz), in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland, in what was then the German Empire.
Des ...
, destroyed in 1939
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Great Synagogue (Łódź)
The Great Synagogue of Łódź () was a former Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Łódź, in the Łódź Voivodeship of Poland. Designed by Adolf Wolff in the Romanesque Revival style and completed in 1887, the synagogue serve ...
, destroyed in 1939
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Great Synagogue (Łomża)
The Great Synagogue was a former Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, that was located at the southeastern corner of the Main Square, at the intersection of today's Giełczyńska and Senatorska Streets, in Łomża, in the Podlaskie Voivod ...
, destroyed during World War II
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Great Synagogue (Oświęcim)
The Great Synagogue () was a former Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Judaism, Jewish congregation and synagogue, that was located in Oświęcim (), in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship of Poland. Designed by Carl Korn and completed in 1873, the synagogue ...
, destroyed in 1939
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Great Synagogue (Warsaw)
The Great Synagogue of Warsaw () was a former Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, that was located on Tłomackie street, in Warsaw, in the Masovian Voivodeship of Poland. Designed by Leandro Marconi and completed in the ...
, destroyed in 1943 after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Romania
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Great Synagogue (Constanța)
The Great Synagogue of Constanța is a synagogue, located at 2 C. A. Rosetti Street in Constanța, Romania, that is no longer in use. Although it is in an advanced state of decay and has been abandoned, it is the only synagogue that stands in Co ...
, disused
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Great Synagogue (Iaşi) 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
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Sweden
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Great Synagogue of Stockholm
The Great Synagogue of Stockholm (, ) is a Conservative Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 3A Wahrendorffsgatan, close to the park Kungsträdgården on Norrmalm, in Stockholm, Sweden. The synagogue was designed by Fredrik Wilhelm Sch ...
Tunisia
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Grand Synagogue of Tunis
The Grand Synagogue of Tunis (), also called the Great Synagogue of Tunis or the Temple of Osiris, is a Judaism, Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Avenue de la Liberté, in Tunis, Tunisia.
History
The idea for a synagogue was origi ...
Ukraine
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Great Choral Synagogue (Kyiv)
The Great Choral Synagogue of Kyiv (), also known as the Podil Synagogue or the Rozenberg Synagogue, is a Aesopian synagogue, located in Podil, a historic neighborhood of Kyiv, Ukraine. Built in 1895, it is under the leadership of Rabbi Yaak ...
Former synagogues
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Great Synagogue (Berehove)
The Great Synagoge is a former Orthodox Jewish synagogue, located in Berehove, in the Zakarpattia Oblast of Ukraine. The former synagogue was completed in the late 19th century and the congregation worshipped in the Ashkenazi rite.
The buildi ...
, abandoned and repurposed
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Great Synagogue (Bila Tserkva), abandoned and repurposed
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Great Synagogue (Brody), abandoned
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Great Synagogue (Husiatyn), abandoned
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Great Synagogue (Lutsk), abandoned and repurposed
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Great City Synagogue (Lviv), destroyed
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Great Suburb Synagogue
The Great Suburb Synagogue (; ) was a synagogue at Bożnicza-Street 16 in Lviv, in the Lviv Oblast of Ukraine. The synagogue was developed in stages, with the men's prayer hall completed in 1632, located in what was then the Polish–Lithuanian ...
, Lviv, destroyed
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Great Synagogue (Pidhaitsi), demolished
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Great Synagogue (Velyki Mosty), abandoned
United Kingdom
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Great Synagogue (Gibraltar)
The Great Synagogue of Gibraltar (), also known as Kahal Kadosh Sha'ar HaShamayim (; ), is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. It was the first synagogue on the Iberian Penins ...
, oldest synagogue on the Iberian Peninsula
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Great Synagogue of London
The Great Synagogue of London was a former Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Judaism, Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the City of London, England, in the United Kingdom. The synagogue was, for centuries, the centre of Ashkenazi life in Lo ...
, destroyed by aerial bombing in the London Blitz in 1941
Museums
* The historical Great Synagogue in Amsterdam, now part of the
Joods Historisch Museum
The (; ), part of the Jewish Cultural Quarter, is a museum in Amsterdam dedicated to Jewish history, culture and religion, in the Netherlands and worldwide. It is the only museum in the Netherlands dedicated to Jewish history.
History
The Jood ...
(Jewish History Museum)
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Włodawa Great Synagogue, built between 1769 and 1774, now a museum complex in Poland
Synagogues in antiquity
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Great Assembly
According to Jewish tradition the Great Assembly (, also translated as Great Synagogue or ''Synod'') was an assembly of possibly 120 scribes, sages, and prophets, which existed from the early Second Temple period (around 516 BCE) to the early He ...
, or Anshei Knesset HaGedolah, sometimes referred to as the Great Synagogue, of Temple times.
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Great Synagogue of Baghdad
The Great Synagogue of Baghdad (), also known as the Shaf ve’Yativ Synagogue or Shad veYativ Synagogue is a former synagogue and Orthodox Jewish congregation, located in Baghdad, Iraq. Rebuilt several times, the building now serves as a Jewi ...
, an ancient building in present-day
Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...
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Sardis Synagogue
The Sardis Synagogue is a former ancient Jewish synagogue, that was discovered in the modern-day town of Sardis, in the Manisa Province, in the Aegean Region of western Turkey. The former synagogue building is now an archaeological site and Je ...
, Manisa, Turkey - The complex destroyed in AD 616 by the Sassanian-Persians.
See also
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New Synagogue (disambiguation)
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Old Synagogue (disambiguation)
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