[1] Built between 1941 and 1942, the synagogue was named after Yehudah Halevi, Jewish philosopher, physician and poet from medieval Spain.

[2][3] In 1924, the Sephardic Jewish community of Mexico City unified as an organization called «La Fraternidad» (The Brotherhood).

In 1941, the organization bought a plot of land on Calle Monterrey, where the congregation remains to this day.

The winning submission was by engineer Francisco Cánovas and was inspired by the Sephardic synagogue in Vidin, Bulgaria.

[2] Construction finished in 1942 and the synagogue was consecrated in honor of Yehuda Halevi at the suggestion of La Fraternidad member Victor Babani.