Berlin - 48-50 Lindenstrasse (Kreuzberg Locality)

Summary: In 1888, members of Berlin’s Jewish community acquired a plot of land on Lindenstrasse. Berlin’s first courtyard synagogue, the building they constructed served as a model for local synagogues built during the following years. The house of worship could be spotted from the street only by looking through the door of the house in front of the building; the synagogue building contained a school for religious studies and living quarters for the rabbi. With Gothic and Romantic architecture, the synagogue’s design included a choir loft and space for an organ. Gender separation was not enforced. The Lindenstrasse synagogue’s interior was destroyed on Pogrom Night, November 1938. The exterior survived the onslaught and became, in 1939, a granary. Destroyed in February 1945, the building was finally torn down in 1951.
Photo: The synagogue on Lindenstrasse, Berlin. Courtesy of: Leo Baeck Institute Photo Archive, 124.
Author / Sources: Fred Gottlieb; Sources: FJG, SIB
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