From 1859, the congregation rented halls for regular worship due to the efforts of Hermann Zweig and the well-known Jewish scholar and physician, Adolf Brecher.

These services were officially approved by the authorities in 1860; and in 1863, an entire floor, which was subsequently acquired by the community, was dedicated by the Rev.

The Olomouc Jewish community was reborn after being decimated by the Nazis, and in 2016 they contacted the Peninsula Sinai Congregation to request the return of its scroll.

Damage to its Hebrew lettering has made it unfit, or "unkosher," for use in religious ceremonies in recent years.

In October 2017, Rabbi Helfand, Cantor Doron Shapira, Linda Oberstein, Steve Lipman, Ron and Liz Mester, and Andrea Hawksley and Andy Lutomirski, accompanied Torah back to its home in Olomouc,[5][6] where they were also joined by Rabbi Druin.