Synagoge Rykestraße
The Synagoge Rykestraße—German: *Synagoge Rykestraße*, locally known as the *Friedenstempel*—marks a clear moment in Berlin’s Jewish civic life in the early 1900s. Built for the Conservative Jewish congregation, it is the largest synagogue in Germany, designed by Johann Hoeniger in the Romanesque Revival style. Work began in 1903, and the synagogue was completed in 1904 and inaugurated on 4 September 1904, in time for Rosh Hashanah. The Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin bought the site in Rykestraße in 1902 and commissioned Hoeniger to both design and supervise the building—an investment shaped by the need for synagogues within walking distance as Berlin expanded into new neighbourhoods. At the noon inauguration, Handel’s prelude in D major opened the ceremony, while cantor David Stabinski led *Ma Tovu* and rabbis Josef Eschelbacher and Adolf Rosenzweig preached. …
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