A small number of Jewish families returned during the 17th and 18th century, and they required a special permit in order to live in the town.

The interior is Moorish Revival, especially the wooden carved coffered ceiling (painted in reddish brown) and the arcade of the women's galleries.

[1] The Krnov Synagogue ceased to be used for religious services in the autumn of 1938, when the Sudetenland was incorporated into Nazi Germany.

The Sudeten councillors unanimously accepted a proposal from Franz Irblich, a local builder, to remove all symbols of the Jewish religion from the building and change it into a town market hall, reporting to Berlin that there was no synagogue in Jägerndorf which could be destroyed.

The German population of Krnov was expelled after the war and the former synagogue building was used first as a warehouse, then as a regional archive.