Obtained from the expansion of an oratory existing since 1699, the synagogue of the Ashkenazi, i.e. German, rite was inaugurated in 1756.

Its current appearance, with its double entrance portal, rose window, and the Tablets of the Law in Hebrew script, is the result of the restoration carried out by architect Emilio Luzzatto in 1894, following the demolition of the houses separating the synagogue from the main street. In the 1950s, neighborhood redevelopment gave the building a new look, isolating it from the adjacent buildings with which it had previously shared a single front on Via Ascoli. In the entrance courtyard, a plaque commemorates the Gorizia Jews deported by the Nazis in 1943. Next to it is a stylized menorah, the candelabra symbol of Judaism, designed by Simon Benetton.

The synagogue hall, which is accessed by climbing the staircase located in the atrium on the ground floor, has maintained its eighteenth-century structure unchanged, with the wooden gallery with a balcony and the tabernacle (Aron hakodesh) supported by four twisted columns in black marble, inside which is the scroll of the Holy Scriptures (Torah).

In 1959 the synagogue was closed to worship due to the small number of Jewish families in the city and in 1969 it became a simple section of the one in Trieste.

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The Synagogue will reopen to the public on Tuesday, July 1st.

The temple on Via Ascoli will be open on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Free admission.