[1] The synagogue was built around 1567 thanks to a privilege granted on August 25 of that year by the King of Poland, Sigismund II Augustus, to the Jews of Lublin.

[3] In the late 16th or early 17th century, a smaller building called the Maharam's Synagogue, intended for Shabbat services, was added to its southern wall.

[6] The likely remnant of this jail was a small prayer room in the vestibule of the synagogue, referred to in 19th-century documents as Shive Kryjem.

Over the years, it fell into disrepair and neglect, leading to a structural collapse on the night after Yom Kippur in 1854, when the building's ceilings caved in.

[2][4] During World War II, the German occupation authorities ordered the synagogue to be closed for religious purposes.

[4] In March and April 1942, the Nazis completely devastated the synagogue's interior[4] and turned it into a gathering point for people being transported to the Belzec extermination camp.

[3] On average, about 1,500 Jews were gathered there each night before being marched through Kalinowszczyzna to the ramp behind the municipal slaughterhouse, from where trains departed for Belzec.

The project, developed using virtual reality technology by Krzysztof Mucha from the company Servodata Elektronik, took half a year to complete.

To this day, several photos, drawings, and architectural plans from the interwar period have survived, providing insight into the external appearance and interior of the synagogue.

[5] On the eastern wall was a modest Renaissance-Baroque Torah ark, standing in the center of a large decorative structure flanked by pilasters and topped with the Tablets of the Ten Commandments, symbolically adorned by a pair of lions.

[2] The discovery was made in January 2008 by historian Jacek Proszyk during an inventory of items used in the Bielsko synagogue and the translation of the text embroidered on the parochet.