The Neue Synagoge ("New Synagogue") designed by…
1866 CE
The Neue Synagoge ("New Synagogue") designed by Eduard Knoblauch, is completed in 1866 after seven years of construction as the main synagogue of the Berlin Jewish community, on Oranienburger Straße.
Because of its splendid eastern Moorish style and resemblance to the Alhambra, it is an important architectural monument of the second half of the nineteenth century in Berlin.
Following Knoblauch's succumbing to illness, Friedrich August Stüler had taken responsibility for the majority of its construction as well as for its interior arrangement and design.
It is inaugurated in the presence of Count Otto von Bismarck, Minister President of Prussia, in 1866. (One of the few synagogues to survive Kristallnacht, it will suffer extensive damaged prior to and during the Second World War and subsequently much will be demolished; the present building on the site is a reconstruction of the ruined street frontage with its entrance, dome and towers, and only a few rooms behind. It is truncated before the point where the main hall of the synagogue began.)