The Moscow Choral Synagogue (Russian: Московская Хopaльнaя Cинaгoга, Moskovskaya Khoralnaya Sinagoga; Hebrew: בית כנסת הכוראלי של מוסקבה) is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 10 Bolshoy Spasogolinischevsky Lane, in the central Basmanny District of Moscow, Russia.

In 1888, the city intervened again and required the builders to remove the completed dome and the exterior image of the scrolls of Moses.

Construction dragged on for five years, until the authorities once again banned it in 1892, giving two choices: sell the unfinished building or convert it into a charity.

[2] When the final illness of Joseph Stalin was announced in March 1953, the chief rabbi held a special service and called for fasting and prayer that the dictator might recover.

He had become a follower of the Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, who was exiled by the Soviets and at the time lived in Poland.

A short closed session of the Military Board of the Supreme Court of the USSR met on April 26, 1938, without calling prosecutors, defence attorneys and witnesses, and sentenced the rabbi to immediate execution by firing.