Synagoga Wysoka
In Synagoga Wysoka—Polish for the “High Synagogue”—a wealthy merchant known only as Israel sought permission from King Sigismund II Augustus to build a Jewish house of worship in the second half of the 16th century. Construction began in 1563, and it was completed in 1563 in a late Renaissance style, with some accounts dating the start to 1556. Its prayer rooms sat on the second floor above the ground-floor shops, and the sanctuary walls were painted with scenes from Jerusalem, including the “Western Wall,” the “Tomb of the Israelite Kings,” and a pair of lions in the women’s gallery. After World War II began, Nazis stripped the synagogue’s interior in 1939, destroying the furnishings; only a seventeenth-century baroque chanukah candlestick survived and was transported to Wawel Castle. …
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