Synagogue de Lille

The Lille synagogue, a consistory synagogue in the Ashkenazi rite, was the first synagogue to be built in the Nord region, shortly after the large-scale immigration of Jews from Alsace and Central Europe in the second half of the 19th century.


Built by Lille architect Théophile-Albert Hannotin, the synagogue was inaugurated in 1891. The synagogue is part of a new district developed in the second half of the 19th century, the "Latin Quarter" of Lille, which includes Saint-Michel church, the...