List of synagogues in France

This is an incomplete list of synagogues, current or former Jewish houses of prayer, in France.

NameLocationBuiltArchitectural style(s)StatusDenominationImageNotes
AmiensAmiens, Somme2017ModernistActiveOrthodox[1]
ArcachonArcachon1879ActiveSephardi[2]
Beth MeirBastia, Corsica1934VernacularActiveOrthodox[3]
BelfortBelfort1857Byzantine RevivalActive[4]
BesançonBesançon1870Moorish RevivalActive[5]
Great (Bordeaux)Bordeaux1882
ActiveSephardi[6]
CaenCaen, Normandy1966Active[7]
GuebwillerGuebwiller, Haut-Rhin1872Romanesque Revival
Byzantine Revival		Active[8]
HochfeldenHochfelden, Alsace1841Active[9]
IngwillerIngwiller, Alsace1970Active[10]
LilleLille, Hauts-de-France1891Romanesque Revival
Byzantine Revival		Active[11]
Great (Lyon)Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes1864Byzantine RevivalActiveOrthodox[12]
Keren OrLyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes2015ActiveReform[13]
Great (Marseille)Marseille1864
  • Romanesque Revival
  • Byzantine Revival
ActiveSephardi[14]
Or Thora
(maybe Or Torah)		Marseille1962Former;
(now mosque)		[15]
NeuillyNeuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine1878Byzantine RevivalActiveOrthodox[16]
NiceNice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur1886Byzantine RevivalActiveOrthodox[17]
RouenRouen, Normandy1950ActiveOrthodox[18]
Saint-AvoldSaint-Avold, Grand Est1956ModernistActive[19]
SedanSedan, Ardennes1878
  • Romanesque Revival
  • Byzantine Revival
Former;
gallery		[20]
Great Synagogue of Peace (Strasbourg)Strasbourg1958ModernistActive[21]
du Quai KléberStrasbourg1898Romanesque RevivalDestroyed
TraenheimTraenheimActive
Liberal Jewish Movement of FranceActiveReform
VersaillesVersailles, Île-de-France1886Romanesque RevivalActive[22]
VesoulVesoul, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté1875Former[23]

In Paris

NameArrondissementBuiltArchitectural style(s)StatusDenominationImageNotes
Adath ShalomXVe1989ActiveConservative;
Masorti movement		[24][25]
Agoudas HakehilosIVe1914Art NouveauActiveOrthodox[26]
Communauté Juive LibéraleXIe2006ActiveReform[27]
Don Isaac AbravanelXIe1962ModernistActiveOrthodox[28]
Edmond J. Safra SynagogueXVIIe2019Active[29]
Grand (Paris)IXe1874Romanesque Revival
Byzantine Revival		ActiveOrthodox[30]
Kehilat GesherXVIIe1993ActiveReform[31]
MontmartreXVIIIe1939InternationalActiveOrthodox[32]
de NazarethIIIe1852Moorish RevivalActiveOrthodox[33]
des TournellesIVe1876
  • Romanesque Revival
  • Byzantine Revival
ActiveOrthodox[34]
Union Libérale Israélite de FranceXVIe1907Art DecoActiveReform[35]

References

  1. ↑ "Synagogue d'Amiens – Lieu de culte". Lherm & Gallizia Architects (in French). 2020. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
  2. ↑ Base Mérimée: Synagogue d'Arcachon, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  3. ↑ "Beth Meir". Synagoges360. 2024. Retrieved June 14, 2024.
  4. ↑ "La synagogue". Tourisme.com. n.d. Retrieved June 13, 2024.
  5. ↑ "Synagogue in Besançon". Historic Synagogues of Europe. Foundation for Jewish Heritage and the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. n.d. Retrieved June 14, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Bordeaux". The Cultural Guide to Jewish Europe. n.d. Retrieved June 12, 2024.
  7. ↑ Marie, Juliette (May 2015). "La tardive construction de la synagogue". Ouest-France, édition de Caen (in French).
  8. ↑ Base Mérimée: Synagogue, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  9. ↑ Base Mérimée: Synagogue de Hochfelden, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  10. ↑ Base Mérimée: Château puis synagogue, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  11. ↑ Base Mérimée: Synagogue, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  12. ↑ Base Mérimée: Synagogue, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  13. ↑ Toledano-Klein, Sarah (August 14, 2015). "La communauté juive libérale Keren Or s'installe aux Charpennes". Le Progrès (in French).
  14. ↑ Base Mérimée: Synagogue dite aussi le grand temple ou la grande synagogue, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  15. ↑ Arbaoui, Larbi (May 6, 2016). "Muslim Association Purchase Synagogue, Converts it to Mosque". Morocco World News. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
  16. ↑ "Synagogue in Neuilly". Historic synagogues of Europe. Foundation for Jewish Heritage and the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. n.d. Retrieved June 16, 2024.
  17. ↑ Base Mérimée: Synagogue ou temple israélite, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  18. ↑ "Synagogue de Rouen - Eglises et patrimoine religieux de France". www.patrimoine-religieux.fr. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
  19. ↑ "Post-war Synagogue in Saint-Avold". Historic Synagogues of Europe. Foundation for Jewish Heritage and the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. n.d. Retrieved June 16, 2024.
  20. ↑ Base Mérimée: Synagogue, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  21. ↑ "Presentation of the Synagogue de la Paix". Consistoire Israélite du Bas-Rhin (in French). n.d. Retrieved November 9, 2025.
  22. ↑ Base Mérimée: Synagogue, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  23. ↑ "Ancienne synagogue cherche acquéreur". www.estrepublicain.fr (in French). L'est Republicain. Retrieved October 24, 2018.
  24. ↑ Gousset, Camille (July 9, 2018). "Cet été, les juifs de la communauté Adath Shalom célèbreront dans une salle paroissiale". La Croix (in French). ISSN 0242-6056. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  25. ↑ Dorne, Marjolaine (January 22, 2009). "Prier ensemble pour la paix". Réforme (in French).
  26. ↑ "Synagogue, 10 rue Pavée, 4ème arrondissement, Paris". parismuseescollections.paris.fr (in French). Retrieved February 15, 2020.
  27. ↑ Edinger, Bernard (2008). "Europe Report: Flourishing in France". Reform Judaism magazine. Archived from the original on October 7, 2013.
  28. ↑ "Isaac Abravanel (Synagogue de la Roquette)". Observatoire du Patrimoine Religieux (in French). Retrieved November 4, 2016.
  29. ↑ "Synagogue Edmond J. Safra, Paris". Selected Projects: Religion. Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation. 2023. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  30. ↑ "Grande Synagogue de Paris". Paris je t'aime: Tourist Office. 2024. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  31. ↑ "Kehilat Gesher – Francophone-Anglophone Jewish Community of Paris". Networks Overcoming Antisemitism. 2024. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  32. ↑ "Rue Sainte Isaure Synagogue in Paris". The Center for Jewish Art. Foundation for Jewish Heritage and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. n.d. Retrieved June 9, 2024.
  33. ↑ Base Mérimée: Synagogue, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  34. ↑ "History of the Tournelles Synagogue". Sortiaparis.com. April 12, 2021. Retrieved June 7, 2024.
  35. ↑ Herselle Krinsky, Carol (1985). Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning' (1996; Dover Publications ed.). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. p. 253.
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