The synagogue was completed in 1916 under the direction of Alexander Beer, the master builder of the Jewish Community of Berlin, for an Orthodox congregation.

In 1925 the Jewish community opened a kindergarten and after-school care center and in the following years a youth home and a holiday playground on the site.

The systematic social, economic exclusion and expropriation of the Jews by the Nazis resulted in poverty and material hardship.

Immediately after the war, the youth services building was the first synagogue in Berlin to be reopened in time for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year celebrations, in September 1945.

The Jewish Hungarian-American war photographer Robert Capa immortalized this special moment in a series of pictures for ’’Life’’ magazine.

A memorial stone by Cornelia Lengfeld erected on the property boundary in 1989 reminds visitors of the destruction in the past.

The building is a historical monument, and a memorial plaque on the embankment shows the earlier construction and tells the story of the site's destruction.

From the mid-2000s, the congregants became even more diverse and international: Many young Israelis, North and South Americans, people from different European countries and beyond have made Kreuzberg and Neukölln - and with it the Fraenkelufer Synagogue - their new home.

The project represents the first time that a fully complete reconstruction of a synagogue that was destroyed during the Nazi period in Berlin will come to fruition.

[4] The 20-person committee attaches great importance to the fact that the new synagogue is based on the architectural style of the previous building.

The committee includes Raed Saleh, Monika Herrmann, Michael Müller, as well as representatives of the Jewish and Muslim communities and people from business and the media.

It was built as a pillar basilica, with the facade facing the Landwehr Canal structured with windows in the upper storey.