Designed by Paolo Antonio Fontana in the Baroque style and completed in 1774, the former Great Synagogue is preserved as a Jewish museum.

The Small Synagogue, or Beit midrash, also in the Baroque style, was completed in 1786 and is preserved as a museum as well.

The census of 1773 records Jewish physicians, butchers, millers, barbers, goldsmiths, tailors, furriers, merchants, and carters, in addition to one Jew in each of the trades of coppersmith, cobbler, glazier, chandler, and wheelwright.

In the late nineteenth century Włodawa had a Jewish-owned steam-powered flour mill, tannery and soap factory.

The synagogue complex is unusual not only because it escaped destruction by the Nazi occupiers of Poland, and because the entire suite of Jewish communal buildings is intact, but also because, unlike many other former synagogues in Poland that were destroyed, left to decay, or turned to other uses in the Communist era,[11] it was meticulously restored.

The Great synagogue is a Baroque structure, with a ground floor entrance and a high-ceilinged, second-story sanctuary.

[13][14][15] The flanking wings give the building a general configuration similar to the palaces and great manor houses of the Polish nobility of the era.

Also unusual is the three-tiered copper roof that takes the general form of the unique wooden synagogues of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth.

At the right, priestly hands are carved in a gesture of blessing, on the left there is a basket of fruit representing the Temple offerings.

At the first floor level, on both sides of the recess for the scrolls, there are carved musical instruments of which the congregation was particularly proud.

On the frieze there is a sign in the middle of which the date the new Aron ha-kodesh was built is encrypted: 5696 according to the Jewish calendar, 1936.

The elaborate, polychrome folk paintings on the synagogue walls are reproduced from surviving plaster fragments and old photographs.