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Vienna's main synagogue, the city's only shul to survive the Holocaust, reopens after restoration

17 Sep 2026, 13:51 GMT By Liam Hoare
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Article Vienna's main synagogue, the city's only shul to survive the Holocaust, reopens after restoration
Credit: Liam Hoare

Sandwiched among apartment buildings in a dense urban area, the 200-year-old Stadttempel was the only one of Vienna's then-26 synagogues to survive the Nazis' November pogroms of 1938