Great Synagogue, Łomża

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The Great Synagogue in the Polish city of Łomża was located at the southeast corner of the main square, at the intersection of today's roads Giełczyńska and Senatorska 28 It was built 1878-1889 on the initiative of Rabbi Eliezer Simcha Rabinowicz, and of the Italian- Polish architect Enrico Marconi designed.

The synagogue was destroyed after the beginning of World War II by the Nazis; the timing is unclear: the Polish online project Virtual According Shtetl it was burned down in September 1939, according to the Pinkas haKehilot Yad Vashem project was the destruction in September 1941, when shortly after the German invasion of the Soviet Union the ghetto Łomża for the Jews was built from the environment.

Today, a bronze commemorative plaque with an inscription in Polish and Hebrew at the site of the synagogue of the events. It was donated in 1986 by the local community for the 44th anniversary of the destruction of the ghetto of Łomża. On the plaque reads: