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Great Synagogue or Grand Synagogue may refer to current or former synagogues in the following countries:


Algeria

* 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


Czech Republic

* Great Synagogue (Plzeň), the world's fourth largest synagogue


Denmark

*
Great Synagogue (Copenhagen) The Great Synagogue is an Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Judaism, Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at Krystalgade 12, in Copenhagen, Denmark. The congregation was formed at some stage during the 17th century and their first synagogue comp ...


Georgia

* Great Synagogue (Tbilisi)


Hungary

*
Dohány Street Synagogue The Dohány Street Synagogue ( ; ; ), also known as the Great Synagogue () or Tabakgasse Synagogue (), is a Neolog Judaism, Neolog Judaism, Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Dohány utca, Dohány Street in Erzsébetváros (VIIth dis ...
the Great Synagogue (''Nagy Zsinagóga'') of Budapest, Europe's largest and the world's fourth largest synagogue.


Israel

*
Ades Synagogue The Ades Synagogue (), also known as the Great Synagogue Ades of the Glorious Aleppo Community, is an Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Judaism, Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 1 Beer Sheba Street, in the Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusale ...
, 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 The Western Wall (; ; Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: ''HaKosel HaMa'arovi'') is an ancient retaining wall of the built-up hill known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount of Jerusalem. Its most famous section, known by the same name ...
completed in 19 BC


Italy

* Great Synagogue (Florence) * Great Synagogue (Rome), the largest synagogue in Rome


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) The Great Synagogue of Warsaw () was a former Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, that was located on Tłomackie street, in Warsaw, in the Masovian Voivodeship of Poland. Designed by Leandro Marconi and completed in the ...
, destroyed in 1943 after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising


Romania

* Great Synagogue (Constanța), disused * Great Synagogue (Iaşi)


Sweden

* Great Synagogue of Stockholm


Tunisia

* Grand Synagogue of Tunis


Ukraine

* Great Choral Synagogue (Kyiv)


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 City Synagogue (Lviv), destroyed * Great Suburb Synagogue, Lviv, destroyed * Great Synagogue (Pidhaitsi), demolished * Great Synagogue (Velyki Mosty), abandoned


United Kingdom

* Great Synagogue (Gibraltar), oldest synagogue on the Iberian Peninsula *
Great Synagogue of London The Great Synagogue of London was a former Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Judaism, Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the City of London, England, in the United Kingdom. The synagogue was, for centuries, the centre of Ashkenazi life in Lo ...
, destroyed by aerial bombing in the London Blitz in 1941


Museums

* The historical Great Synagogue in Amsterdam, now part of the Joods Historisch Museum (Jewish History Museum) * Włodawa Great Synagogue, built between 1769 and 1774, now a museum complex in Poland


Synagogues in antiquity

*
Great Assembly According to Jewish tradition the Great Assembly (, also translated as Great Synagogue or ''Synod'') was an assembly of possibly 120 scribes, sages, and prophets, which existed from the early Second Temple period (around 516 BCE) to the early He ...
, or Anshei Knesset HaGedolah, sometimes referred to as the Great Synagogue, of Temple times. *
Great Synagogue of Baghdad The Great Synagogue of Baghdad (), also known as the Shaf ve’Yativ Synagogue or Shad veYativ Synagogue is a former synagogue and Orthodox Jewish congregation, located in Baghdad, Iraq. Rebuilt several times, the building now serves as a Jewi ...
, an ancient building in present-day
Iraq Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...
* Sardis Synagogue, Manisa, Turkey - The complex destroyed in AD 616 by the Sassanian-Persians.


See also

* New Synagogue (disambiguation) * Old Synagogue (disambiguation) {{synagogue disambiguation