Great Synagogue
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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)
- Great Synagogue (Stolin)
Belgium
- Great Synagogue of Europe, built Brussels in 1878, dedicated as the Synagogue of Europe in 2008
Cyprus
Czech Republic
- Great Synagogue (Plzeň), the world's fourth largest synagogue
Denmark
Estonia
Former
- Great Synagogue of Tallinn, destroyed during the bombing of Tallinn in 1944
France
Germany
Former synagogues
- Grand Synagogue of Nuremberg, destroyed by the Nazis in 1938
Georgia
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
Lithuania
- Great Synagogue (Vilna), destroyed during and after World War II
Netherlands
Poland
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
Former synagogues
- Great Synagogue (Constanța), disused
Russia
South Africa
Sweden
Tunisia
Turkey
Former synagogues
Ukraine
- Great Choral Synagogue (Kyiv)
- Great Synagogue (Sataniv)
- Great Synagogue (Sharhorod)
- Great Synagogue (Zhovkva)
- Choral Synagogue (Drohobych) (also called the Great Synagogue)
- Great Synagogue (Izyaslav)
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
This disambiguation page lists articles about synagogues with the same or similar names.
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