Synagogue, Gothic Revival synagogue in central Bordeaux, France.

The Grande synagogue de Bordeaux, at 6 rue du Grand-Rabbin-Joseph-Cohen, has a light cream stone facade with a central gable topped by a finial and flanked by two square towers. Three pointed-arch windows with slender columns and hood moulds sit above three carved arched portals. The interior is a 36-metre-long hall with fourteen Corinthian columns and a riveted sheet-metal roof structure by Gustave Eiffel's workshops.

A fire in 1873 destroyed the previous building, after which architects Charles Durand and Paul Abadie constructed this synagogue. The completion in 1882 marked the community's rebuilding of its central place.

The name recalls the Sephardic Jews who arrived from the Iberian Peninsula after the 1492 Alhambra Decree. Inside, a garnet velvet parokhet curtains the heckal set in a horseshoe arch, and a seven-branch menorah nearly 4.5 metres tall stands before the tebah. Women sit in upper tribunes (mekhitsa), and morning and evening services are held daily.

The synagogue stands in a narrow lane just off Rue Sainte-Catherine, entered from a courtyard behind an wrought-iron gate. Morning and evening services are held daily, so visitors should time their look at the facade and interior around them and dress modestly.

The riveted sheet-metal roof structure was made in Gustave Eiffel's workshops; the metal frame is hidden beneath a painted stucco vault rising over 16 metres, which allowed the wide interior without internal supports.