The history of Jewish immigration to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sarajevo began in 1492 after the Spanish Catholic royal couple Ferdinand and Isabella managed to break the power of the Muslim rulers in the area of present-day Spain.

For the remaining citizens of the Muslim and Jewish faiths, a time of discrimination and pressure to accept Christianity or leave has begun.

When the Austrian general Eugene of Savoy entered Sarajevo with his army in 1697, he had burned down entire city and the oldest registry books of the Jews were lost.

In April 1941, the Second World War began in Yugoslavia and Sarajevo became part of the Independent State of Croatia.

The Ustaše authorities appoint Srećko Bujas to take care of the Jewish Municipality in Sarajevo.

First, German soldiers and robbers attacked the prayer area of the Temple, knocked down a chandelier with a thousand candles, threw relics on the floor, trampled the books of Moses, tore cloths with knives, fought each other over gold and silver, rolled off the copper covering from the dome, threw furniture from the office.

Later, the registers were entrusted to religious teacher Jakov Maestro, and Pinkas, the newer one from 1925, and the old one from 1720 to Finci, who placed them in a safe.

In the same year (1941), Jews were ordered to wear the yellow star, and then deportations to forced labor were organized.

In SFR Yugoslavia, the Jewish community got a chance to recover again, so after the war, most Jews married outside their ethnic group.

The oldest synagogue, Il Kal Grandi, was adapted into the Museum of the Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and on the remains of the Sephardic Temple, the "Workers' University Đuro Đaković" (today the Bosnian Cultural Center) was built, in the foyer of which a memorial Menorah was placed, commemorating the 400 years since arrival of Jews in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In the same year, an extensive adaptation of the Ashkenazi synagogue in Sarajevo was carried out, which was structurally arranged so that its upper part retained the function of the synagogue temple, while the lower area was arranged into office and work rooms, and two large functional halls for social, cultural and entertainment content.

In 1992, the 500th anniversary of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain was marked in Sarajevo with a multi-day cultural event Sefarad 92.

Before the beginning of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the New Temple Gallery (Galerija Novi Hram) was opened in this synagogue.

Bet Tefila (House of Prayer) or Il Kal di la Bilava, is a former synagogue in Sarajevo's Mejtaš neighborhood.

On the facade of Bet Tefila, the recognizable Jewish symbols of the menorah and the Star of David are still visible today.

It was built in 1902 according to the project of the architect Karlo Paržik, for the Jewish Ashkenazi municipality in Sarajevo.

After the Second World War, this Ashkenazi synagogue was for a long time the only active Jewish temple in Sarajevo.

Il Kal di Lud Mudus (Temple of the Dumb; Hram nijemih), was a small synagogue located in the Jewish palace in Ćemaluša Street.

This temple was also called Il Kal di Capon, after the famous chief rabbi Abraham Capon, the founder of the Ladino language Jewish newspaper La Alborada, and Il Kal di Jayen after Rabbi Shabetay Jayen.

The name Il Kal di lus modernus comes from innovations in the interior (the women's balcony did not have wooden bars), and the name Temple of the Dumb, because Abraham Capon introduced the choir into the synagogue, so the faithful had to pray silently.

[3] Il Kal di tiju Mači Bohor was a small synagogue that was located on Banjski Brijeg, in Pehlivanuša Street which passed throughout entire early 20th century Sarajevo.

the Templ (Veliki novi hram) was a Sephardic synagogue in Sarajevo, located in Branilaca Sarajeva street, today the Bosnian Cultural Center.

This Jewish synagogue was characterized by an ellipsoid dome covered with copper, the third largest in Europe at the time.

The temple was renovated and rebuilt in 1964, by Bosnian architect Ivan Štraus and donated to the city by the Jewish community.

The pious Sarajevo Jews gathered around the "Tikun Hacot" synagogue, got up at midnight, uttered lamentations called "kinot" and wept, helping to fill the cup.