Great Synagogue (Katowice)

The Great Synagogue (Polish: Synagoga Wielka w Katowicach; German: Große Synagoge in Kattowitz) was a former Jewish congregation and synagogue, that was located on Uferstrasse (contemporary Mickiewicza Street), in Katowice (Kattowitz), in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland, in what was then the German Empire.

Designed by Max Grünfeld in an eclectic mix of the Gothic Revival and Renaissance Revival styles, and completed in 1900, the synagogue served as a house of prayer until World War II when it was destroyed by Nazis by arson in early September 1939, during the invasion of Poland.

[1][3][a] After the war, the few Jews who survived the Holocaust were unable to gather enough resources and support to rebuild the synagogue.

[5] In 1988, a monument was raised in the square, dedicated to the Jewish inhabitants of the city who perished during World War II.

Other characteristics elements included large decorated windows and small towers.