The congregation was founded in 2021 and, since 2022, has occupied a mid-19th century building, built in 1839 as the main hall of the former Leipzig train station in Dresden, between the Blaue-Fabrik and Hanse 3.

Towards the northeast, the railroad facility grew over time and reached its greatest extent shortly before today's Pieschen branch.

On January 21, 1942, a train with 224 Jews from the Dresden-Bautzen district left the station in unheated transport carts and reached the Riga ghetto four days later.

The fall of the Berlin Wall put an end to these plans and marked a turning point in the history of the freight station.

from 1938 until 1942 the offices of the Nazi Reichsbahn where located in the building and this train station was where the Jews of Saxony were gathered and send the concentration camps.

[4][full citation needed] The building currently houses the synagogue of approximately 4,800 sq ft (450 m2) with 250 seats[5] where services and community activities are regularly held.