The largest pilgrim destination for the Jews in Germany, the Neue Synagogue or the New Synagogue, was built between 1859 and 1866. It is located in the Scheunenviertel district or the Barn Quarter of Berlin, which was once a Jew dominated district in the city. Exhibiting a fine architectural design of the neo-byzantine, the Neue Synagogue is unique in itself. Designed by Eduard Knoblauch, this synagogue in Berlin is accentuated with vast galleries and a high gilded dome. The asymmetrical structures and
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the sheer massiveness of the place add up to the modern delineation of the building.
During the Kristallnacht massacre in the year 1938, the synagogue was demolished by the Nazis. Later, it was destroyed again during the allied bombing of 1943. The restoration of the Neue Synagogue finally began after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Positing a splendor and a nostalgia that has been permeating from the generations of the past, this Berlin tourist attraction still carries a spiritual ambience.
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