Designed by architects Alexandre Persitz and Arthur-Georges Héaume in the Modernist style, the synagogue was built in 1962 for Jews who emigrated to France from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia as a result of decolonization.

An oratory was founded in 1909, in the backroom of the cafe "Le Bosphore" on rue Sedaine, where the service took place in both Hebrew and Ladino.

When the room became too cramped following further influx of new immigrants, the community built the Al Syete (the Seven) synagogue in 1913 at 7 rue Popincourt, on the site of a former cinema.

[citation needed] In June 1935 a monument was built at 84-86 rue de la Roquette to commemorate the Jewish volunteers who died for France in the war.

[citation needed] Following the Liberation of Paris, the Sephardic Cult Association of Paris, which already owned land on rue de la Roquette, decided to raise the funds necessary to construct a new synagogue at the place where the previous monument was erected (84-86 rue de la Roquette).