Jüdisches Gemeindehaus, Jewish community building in Charlottenburg, Germany.
The Jüdisches Gemeindehaus is a postwar modernist building in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district of Berlin, built in the late 1950s. It houses a large assembly hall, educational rooms, a library, and a kosher restaurant.
A synagogue stood on this site until it was destroyed during the November 1938 pogroms. The building that replaced it was put up in the late 1950s as part of the effort to renew Jewish life in postwar Berlin.
The name of the building points directly to the Jewish community that rebuilt its presence here after the war. Today, people gather in this place for religious services, study, and shared meals at the kosher restaurant inside.
The building sits on Fasanenstraße in Charlottenburg and is easy to reach by public transport. Because it is an active community center, it is worth checking in advance whether a service or event is taking place, as access may be limited on those days.
Stars of David salvaged from the destroyed synagogue were built into the walls of the new structure. This means that fragments of a building destroyed in 1938 are physically present inside the building that stands today.
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