Completed in 1563 in the late Renaissance style, the synagogue served as a house of prayer until World War II when its interior was destroyed by Nazis in 1939.

[1] In the second half of the 16th century, a wealthy merchant known only as Israel submitted his request for building a Jewish house of worship to king Sigismund II Augustus.

However the seventeenth-century baroque chanukah candlestick, which was transported to Wawel castle, is the only element of the equipment of the synagogue that survived the war.

At present only the stone niche for the Aron Kodesh and the wall-paintings uncovered early in the 21st century by art conservation remain.

Photographic and other exhibitions about customs and traditions of the Jewish community of the interwar period are staged indoors.