Shana tova!

The picture shows the exterior of the Neve Shalom Synagogue of the Portuguese Jewish community in Altona. It was inaugurated in 1771 in a backyard on what was then Bäckerstraße and continued to be used by the High German Israelite Congregation from 1887 onwards.

You can find this and many other images relating to Jewish history in Hamburg in our image archive Jewish History & Present.

A detailed article on the interesting history of the synagogue can be found in our key documents.