Gwoździec Synagogue, West facade, c.1900. Courtesy of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Welcome to the Gwoździec Synagogue

The Gwoździec Synagogue was one of hundreds of wooden synagogues that once stood in the greater Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. By 1939, all were destroyed. In 2010, Handshouse Studio was invited to take on the project of recreating, as accurately as possible, the timber roof, painted wooden ceiling, and carved wooden bimah of the Gwoździec Synagogue for permanent installation at the POLIN MUSEUM for the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland.