Old Synagogue Dresden

Dresden, Germany

No longer standing

Demolished or destroyed.

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The Semper Synagogue in Dresden was designed by the renowned architect Gottfried Semper and constructed between 1838 and 1840 in a striking blend of Romanesque Revival and Moorish Revival styles. Located in Saxony, the building stood as an architectural testament to nineteenth-century eclecticism until its destruction by the Nazis on November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht. Today, a menorah monument marks the site where the synagogue once stood, and a New Synagogue, inaugurated in 2001, was subsequently erected adjacent to the original location as a memorial to the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.