The 1798 Karlsruhe Synagogue was an early building by the influential architect

Friedrich Weinbrenner Friedrich Weinbrenner (24 November 1766 – 1 March 1826) was a German architect and city planner admired for his mastery of classical style. Birth and education Weinbrenner was born in Karlsruhe, and began his career apprenticed to his father, ...

in the city of

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...

. According to David Brownlee, this "synagogue was the first large Egyptian building to be erected since antiquity." According to

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, it was "the first public building (that is, not a folly, stage set, or funeral monument) in the Egyptian revival style."

, "Jewish Identity and Egyptian Revival Architecture", ''Journal of Jewish Identities'', 2012 (5(2) p. 7 Appelbaum writes that the pair of tall

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are copied from the temple at

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. The structure stood until 1871.

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* Further sketches of the synagogue available at: http://weinbrenner-gesellschaft.de/wp-content/uploads/synagoge-karlsruhe.jpg * And a model at: http://www.museum-digital.de/bawue/index.php?t=objekt&oges=995 Buildings and structures in Karlsruhe Egyptian Revival synagogues Former synagogues in Germany Religious buildings and structures in Baden-Württemberg {{Germany-synagogue-stub