Designed by Adolf Zeligson in the Moorish Revival style and completed in 1900, the synagogue served as a house of prayer until World War II when it was destroyed by Nazis on 15–16 November 1939.

Łódź, a village of fewer than 200 people at the end of the eighteenth century, developed rapidly into a great industrial city.

The land was purchased from a lieutenant in the National Guard named Józef Aufschlag.

[1] Work began in 1859 on a new, brick synagogue at 20 Wolborska Street designed by Jan Karol Mertsching in a Neo-Mannerist style.

[1][2] The 1861 building was replaced between 1897 and 1900 by an elaborate Moorish Revival style synagogue designed by Adolf Zeligson, a well-known Łódź architect.