Great Synagogue

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

Algeria

Former synagogues

• Great Synagogue of Algiers, converted into a mosque in 1962
• 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

Cyprus

• Great Synagogue of Cyprus

Czech Republic

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

Denmark

• Great Synagogue (Copenhagen)

Estonia

Former

• Great Synagogue of Tallinn, destroyed during the bombing of Tallinn in 1944

France

• Great Synagogue of Bordeaux
• Great Synagogue of Lyon
• Great Synagogue of Marseille
• Grand Synagogue of Paris

Germany

Former synagogues

• Grand Synagogue of Nuremberg, destroyed by the Nazis in 1938

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.
• Great Synagogue of Miskolc
• Great Synagogue of Szeged

Israel

• 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
• Western Wall completed in 19 BC

Italy

• Great Synagogue (Florence)
• Great Synagogue of Livorno
• Great Italian Synagogue in Padua
• Great Synagogue (Rome), the largest synagogue in Rome
• Great Synagogue (Trieste)

Former synagogues

• Great German Synagogue of Venice, Jewish museum since 2017

Latvia

Former

• Great Choral Synagogue (Riga), burned in 1941

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
• Great Synagogue of Zamość, closed in 1939, profane use 1929–1960s, Jewish museum since 2005

Romania

• Great Synagogue (Bucharest)
• Great Synagogue (Iaşi)

Former synagogues

• Great Synagogue (Constanța), disused

Russia

• Grand Choral Synagogue (Saint Petersburg)

South Africa

• Great Park Synagogue (Johannesburg)

Sweden

• Great Synagogue of Stockholm

Tunisia

• Grand Synagogue of Tunis

Turkey

• Grand Synagogue of Edirne

Former synagogues

• Great Synagogue of Gaziantep

Ukraine

• Great Choral Synagogue (Kyiv)
• Great Synagogue (Sataniv)
• Great Synagogue (Sharhorod)
• Great Synagogue (Zhovkva)

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 Maharsha Synagogue, destroyed by the Nazis in 1941, partially restored
• Great City Synagogue (Lviv), destroyed
• Great Suburb Synagogue, Lviv, destroyed
• Great Synagogue (Pidhaitsi), demolished
• Great Synagogue (Velyki Mosty), abandoned

United Kingdom

• Spitalfields Great Synagogue
• Great Synagogue (Gibraltar), oldest synagogue on the Iberian Peninsula

Former synagogues

• Great Synagogue of London, destroyed by aerial bombing in the London Blitz in 1941
• Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue, converted into a mosque in 2015

Yemen

Former synagogues

Grand Synagogue of Aden, abandoned during the 1947 anti-Jewish riots and destroyed in 1994

Museums

• The historical Great Synagogue in Amsterdam, now part of the Joods Historisch Museum (Jewish History Museum);
• The Jewish Museum of Rome, established in 1960, is located in the basement of the Great Synagogue of Rome;
• Great German Synagogue of Venice, Jewish museum since 2017;
• The Great Synagogue Memorial Park, a memorial park devoted to the Great Synagogue (Oświęcim), destroyed in 1939;
• Włodawa Great Synagogue, built between 1769 and 1774, now a museum complex in Poland;
• Great Synagogue of Zamość, a Jewish museum since 2005.

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)