The Rav Aron Schuster Synagogue or the Obrechtsjoel is the largest still functioning Ashkenazi synagogue (sjoel) in Amsterdam. The synagogue is located on the corner of the Jacob Obrechtplein and the Heinzestraat in Amsterdam-Zuid.
The Synagogue at Jacob Obrechtplein in Amsterdam is an Ashkenazi synagogue built in 1927-28 by architect H. Elte Phzn. This brick building still serves as a synagogue.
This neo-Romanesque cross basiliekwas built between 1908 and 1911 after a design by Jos Cuypers and Jan Stuyt. Cuypers had already started in 1898 with the construction of the Sint Bavo in Haarlem, which was not completed until 1930, and in his architectural style clearly meant a transition from the neo-Gothic to a new church architecture.
The church, rectory and study form a whole and were designed by Johan WF Hartkamp jr. , a pupil of Hendrik Petrus Berlage . The church complex was completed in 1914 as a continuation of the clandestine church 'De Ooievaar' on the Barndesteeg .
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