[1] The synagogue was developed in stages, with the men's prayer hall completed in 1632, located in what was then the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

[1] Permission for the construction of a stone synagogue was granted by Sigismund III Vasa, the Roman Catholic King of Poland, in 1624.

Further improvements were completed in the first quarter of the 20th century including replacing wooden ceilings and beams, installing lighting, painting of the walls by the Fleck brothers, Eryk and Maurycy, and the plastering of the façade, interrupted by World War I and the Lwów pogrom of 1918.

The placement of the Bimah in the middle of the prayer hall became the prototype of many subsequent Jewish temples of significant size.

[2] A series of smaller prayer houses were attached to the synagogue, in the mode of separate chapels, including those belonging to the guilds of tailors and butchers, prayer rooms of brotherhoods, Talmudic schools and others, including "Hayutim Gedolim", "Menakrem", "Melamdim", "Nosey Katov", and "Sovhe Tzedek.