Zagreb Synagogue

Zagreb, Croatia

No longer standing

Demolished or destroyed.

The Zagreb Synagogue was a Moorish Revival structure built in 1867 in Zagreb, then part of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia within the Austrian Empire. Designed by architect Franjo Klein and modeled after Vienna's Leopoldstädter Tempel, the 24-meter-tall synagogue stood on Praška Street as the only purpose-built Jewish house of worship in the city's history and among the region's most distinguished examples of synagogue architecture. It served the Orthodox Jewish congregation until its demolition by Ustaše fascist authorities in 1941 under the Axis-aligned Independent State of Croatia. Since the 1980s, efforts to reconstruct the synagogue on its original site have proceeded haltingly, hampered by disagreements between the Croatian government and Jewish organizations over the extent of the latter's involvement in design and decision-making.