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Franzensbader Strasse Synagogue

During the early days of the Grunewald Synagogue Association (based in the Wilmersdorf borough of Berlin; today known as the...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Berlin, Berlin

Added Jan 22, 2020

Intelligenztempel

The Intelligenztempel (Tiergarten Locality, Central Berlin) The synagogue association of the Moabit locality of Berlin was formed in 1895, and...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Berlin, Berlin

Added Jan 22, 2020

Fasanenstrasse synagogue

In response to the growth of Berlin’s Jewish population (5,000 in 1895 to 23,000 in 1910) an additional synagogue was...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Berlin, Berlin

Added Jan 22, 2020

Wolfstein Synagogue

Wolfstein Synagogue (Steglitz Locality, Berlin) The synagogue association of the Steglitz area of Berlin was established in 1874 at the...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Berlin, Berlin

Added Jan 22, 2020

Beth Zion Synagogue

Few details are available about the construction of this synagogue. We do know, however, that female worshipers accessed the designated...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Berlin, Berlin

Added Jan 22, 2020

Behaimstrasse/ Schulstrasse Synagogue

In 1889, a small Jewish association calling itself the Jewish Religious Community of Charlottenburg (it had several hundred members) was...

Category: Synagogue
Location: Berlin, Berlin

Added Jan 22, 2020

Berlin

First Jewish presence: 1225; peak Jewish population: 173,000 in 1925; Jewish population in 1933: unknown. The Middle Ages Berlin’s Jewish...

Category: Residential
Location: Berlin, Berlin

Added Jan 22, 2020

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