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)
  • Choral Synagogue (Drohobych) (also called the Great Synagogue)

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)