Synagogue in Bordeaux was built in the second half of the XIX century was built from 1877 to 1882. During the Second world war she was defiled, half destroyed and looted by the Nazis. Ten years after the end of the war the synagogue was reconstructed, and in 1998 it was recognized as a monument of history.

The first mention of the Jews who lived in Bordeaux, belong to the second half of the VI century. In the early nineteenth century there were nine synagogues, which were located in private homes. Here's what he wrote about the Jews of Bordeaux historian Samuel Lozinski: "People who do not slushie at home openly profess the Jewish religion, came here to join the fold of Judaism... People obviously wanted to Bordeaux, to be buried according to Jewish rites in the Jewish cemetery. But Bordeaux could not turn into a prayer house, a shelter for the elderly, and Bordeaux Jews had manifested a feverish activity".

The authors of the project of the great synagogue are two well-known Frenchman: Paul Abadie, the author and restorer of many religious buildings in France, and Charles Durand, artist, author ceiling paintings of the Louvre. In their project, a synagogue was built replacing burnt in a fire in 1873. In the guise of a new building you could see traits of Oriental style and neo-Gothic style. In the late nineteenth century synagogue in Bordeaux was considered the largest European synagogues. If the building was used a metal frame, designed and manufactured in the workshop of another famous architect Gustave Eiffel.

During the Second world war, the Nazis turned the synagogue into prison, from which Jews were sent to concentration camps, including Dachau and Auschwitz. This tragic fate befell more than a thousand Jewish families. In memory of those terrible events near the synagogue was a memorial plaque.

Today the synagogue is used for its intended purpose – in place of the service. Visitors to the synagogue are the Jews, who emigrated from North Africa.