Fasanenstrasse Synagogue

The Fasanenstrasse Synagogue was a liberal Jewish synagogue in Berlin, Germany opened on 26 August 1912. It was located in an affluent neighbourhood of Charlottenburg on Fasanenstrasse off Kurfürstendamm at numbers 79–80, close to the Berlin Stadtbahn and Zoo Station.

Fasanenstrasse Synagogue
Fasanenstrasse Synagogue about 1916
Religion
AffiliationReform Judaism
LeadershipFormer rabbis included Leo Baeck
StatusClosed by the Nazis in 1936, burned during Kristallnacht in 1938, destroyed during Allied bombing in 1943
Location
LocationFasanenstrasse, Charlottenburg, Berlin
Geographic coordinates52°30′16″N 13°19′41″E
Architecture
Architect(s)Ehrenfried Hessel
StyleNeo-Romanesque with Byzantine elements
Completed1912
Capacity1,720
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