The Worms Synagogue was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2021 (along with other medieval Jewish cultural sites in Speyer and Mainz),[1] due to its historical importance and its testimony to the European Jewish cultural tradition through millennia.

[2] The building was destroyed during the First Crusade in 1096 and subsequently rebuilt in 1175 in the Romanesque style.

Built at the point when the late Romanesque style was fading and Gothic rising, the rectangular prayer hall features a pair of Romanesque columns supporting groin vaults.

The windows in the thick stone walls are simple gothic arches.

The windows in the adjoining study hall, the so-called Rashi Shul, have rounded Romanesque arches.