Museum buildings

 

• New Synagogue

  1752

  Although three synagogues already existed here in the eighteenth century, the continuing growth of the community created a constant need to expand.

• Great Synagogue

  1671

  The Great Synagogue is the oldest of the four synagogues in which the Jewish Historical Museum is housed. Of all these former synagogues, the Great Synagogue was always the most...

• Obbene Shul

  1685

  After the Great Synagogue had been built in 1671 it soon proved too small. Which is why a start was soon made on a Second Synagogue, known as the Obbene Shul. It takes its name from...

• Dritt Shul

  1700 / 1778

  In 1680 the Ashkenazi community bought two houses with bell gables on today's Nieuwe Amstelstraat. These were situated in front of the wooden meat market, on the site where the Obbene...