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Spandau Synagogue

During the years 1855 to 1894, the Jews of Spandau were affiliated with the district synagogue association of Nauen. Prayer...

Added Jan 22, 2020

Lindenstrasse Synagogue

In 1888, members of Berlin’s Jewish community acquired a plot of land on Lindenstrasse. Berlin’s first courtyard synagogue, the building...

Added Jan 22, 2020

Levetzowstrasse Synagogue

Berlin’s magnificent synagogue at 7-8 Levetzowstrasse, built in the style of the 18th century, had a seating capacity of over...

Added Jan 22, 2020

Kottbuser Ufer Synagogue

This complex of buildings, designed by the well-known architect Alexander Beer, housed a large synagogue with a seating capacity of...

Added Jan 22, 2020

Ahavas Shalom Synagogue

The origins of this small synagogue go back to 1851, when a group of Jewish families who worshipped at a...

Added Jan 22, 2020

Kantstrasse Synagogue

After World War I, Dr. Jechiel Weinberg—a Polish-born, Litvak-trained scholar who would later serve as rector of a rabbinical seminary—taught...

Added Jan 22, 2020

Kaiserstrasse Synagogue

This synagogue was inaugurated in 1869. With 1,800 seats, it ranked among the largest Orthodox synagogues in Germany. A resolution...

Added Jan 22, 2020

Lippmann Tauss Synagogue

Liebmann Meyer Wulff (1745-1812), a Jewish banker who was known as the “Croesus of Berlin,” was arguably the founder of...

Added Jan 22, 2020

Freiheit synagogue

The Jewish community of Koepenick (formerly an independent town, now a locality of Berlin) was an autonomous community with a...

Added Jan 22, 2020

Franzensbader Strasse Synagogue

During the early days of the Grunewald Synagogue Association (based in the Wilmersdorf borough of Berlin; today known as the...

Added Jan 22, 2020

Intelligenztempel

The Intelligenztempel (Tiergarten Locality, Central Berlin) The synagogue association of the Moabit locality of Berlin was formed in 1895, and...

Added Jan 22, 2020

Fasanenstrasse synagogue

In response to the growth of Berlin’s Jewish population (5,000 in 1895 to 23,000 in 1910) an additional synagogue was...

Added Jan 22, 2020

Wolfstein Synagogue

 Wolfstein Synagogue (Steglitz Locality, Berlin) The synagogue association of the Steglitz area of Berlin was established in 1874 at the...

Added Jan 22, 2020

Beth Zion Synagogue

Few details are available about the construction of this synagogue. We do know, however, that female worshipers accessed the designated...

Added Jan 22, 2020

Behaimstrasse/ Schulstrasse Synagogue

In 1889, a small Jewish association calling itself the Jewish Religious Community of Charlottenburg (it had several hundred members) was...

Added Jan 22, 2020

Berlin

First Jewish presence: 1225; peak Jewish population: 173,000 in 1925; Jewish population in 1933: unknown. The Middle Ages Berlin’s Jewish...

Added Jan 22, 2020

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