[2] The community was founded in 1895 as an unofficial organization, and at its inception it was part of the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich, or ICZ.
Already in 1890, Josua Goldschmidt, Josef Ettlinger and Isidor Kohn started their own minyan in Zürich.
[3] The community is committed to the values of neo-Orthodoxy as established by Rabbi Samson Rafael Hirsch in the 19th century.
They use Rödelheim prayer books, and recite almost all of the piyyutim in the Western Ashkenazic rite.
The community has a large synagogue on Freigutstrasse, which was designed by the architects Henauer und Witschi [de] in the Art Deco style.