[1] Located on a small street called Židovski Prolaz (Jewish Lane), the synagogue was built into the western wall of Diocletian's Palace by Jews escaping the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal.

[2] Romans established the city of Salona just north of modern-day Split in the 1st Century, where Jewish traders and craftsmen settled.

[5] After a great fire ravaged an earlier place of worship in 1507, the Jewish community established the current synagogue in the northwest corner of Diocletian's Palace.

[6] During World War II, Italian Fascists ransacked the synagogue and destroyed various religious objects, books, and scrolls in a bonfire in the town's main square.

[9] The tombstones are in the Sephardi tradition, with some shaped like a sarcophagus roof, while others are flat, slightly inclined rectangular slabs.