Nożyk Synagogue

Nozyk Synagogue is the only pre-war synagogue in Warsaw still in active use, built between 1898 and 1902 by Leandro Marconi in Neo-Romanesque style with Neo-Byzantine accents. Funded by the merchant couple Zalman and Rywka Nozyk, it served the Orthodox community of the once-vibrant Jewish quarter. The building stood just outside the Ghetto walls after 1940 and was used as a German feed depot and stable from 1941 onward, which ironically spared it from the demolition that erased nearly every other Warsaw synagogue. After postwar restoration in the 1970s it returned to religious use. Today it functions as the centre of Warsaw's Orthodox community, hosting daily prayers, a working mikveh and a small heritage display in the vestibule. Visitors enter through the eastern gate on Twarda Street into a brightly painted hall under a plain wooden ceiling.