Catalogue
Build a careful visual and historical archive of lost synagogues.
CATALOGUING WHAT WAS LOST · BUILDING WHAT COULD RETURN
Lost synagogues deserve
more than remembrance.
They deserve a future, in Israel
The Synagogue Project documents architecturally and historically significant synagogues destroyed across Europe—and imagines a future in which they live again in Israel.
FEATURED · VIENNA, AUSTRIA
Leopoldstädter Tempel
A monumental synagogue that made Jewish presence visible in the heart of nineteenth-century Vienna.
- Completed
- 1858
- Destroyed
- 1938
- Architect
- Ludwig Förster
THE CATALOGUE
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Memory should be more than an absence.
Across Europe, understated plaques and minimalist memorials mark places where magnificent centres of Jewish life once stood. We are creating an authoritative record of those buildings—and laying the groundwork to reconstruct selected synagogues for living communities in Israel.
Educate
Tell the stories of the buildings, architects, and communities behind them.
Rebuild
Create a path toward faithful reconstruction where Jewish life can flourish.