Great Synagogue

Great Synagogue

Great Synagogue or The Great Synagogue may refer to:
* Sardis Synagogue Manisa Turkey - The complex was destroyed in 616 AD by the Sassanian-Persians.
* Dohány Street Synagogue ("Nagy Zsinagóga") in Budapest, Europe's largest and the world's third largest synagogue
* Great Synagogue (Amsterdam), a historical synagogue in Amsterdam, now part of the Joods Historisch Museum (Jewish History Museum)
* Great Synagogue of Baghdad
* Belz Great Synagogue, Jerusalem
* Great Synagogue (Białystok), destroyed in 1941
* Great Synagogue of Europe, built in 1878, dedicated in 2008.
* Great Synagogue of Florence
* Great Synagogue (Copenhagen)
* Great Synagogue (Gdańsk), destroyed in 1939
* Great Synagogue (Gibraltar), oldest synagogue on Iberian Peninsula.
* Great Synagogue (Grodno)
* Great Synagogue (Jasło), destroyed during World War II
* Great Synagogue (Jerusalem)
* Great Synagogue (Katowice), destroyed in 1939
* Great Synagogue (Łomża), destroyed during World War II
* Great Synagogue (Łódź), destroyed in 1939
* Great Synagogue of London, destroyed by aerial bombing 1941.
* Great Synagogue of Oran, converted into a mosque in 1975.
* Great Synagogue (Plzeň), the world's fourth largest synagogue.
* Great Synagogue (Piotrków Trybunalski), destroyed during World War II
* Great Synagogue of Rome, the largest synagogue in Rome.
* Great Synagogue (Sydney), opened in 1878.
* Great Synagogue (Tbilisi)
* Great Synagogue (Tel Aviv), opened in 1926.
* Great Synagogue of Vilna, destroyed during and after WW2.
* Great Synagogue (Warsaw), destroyed in 1943 after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
* Great Assembly, or Anshei Knesset HaGedolah, sometimes referred to as the Great Synagogue, of Temple times.


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