Reims Cathedral

The Synagogue in Reims is an Ashkenazi synagogue completed in 1879 by architect Narcisse Brunette. The synagogue was made in stone in the Neo-Moorish and Neo-Romanesque style.

Built at the end of the 17th century on the site of the old village church according to the wishes of the Count of Avaux Jean-Jacques de Mesmes. Of an extravagant form, designed by a talented architect: the Dominican friar François Romain and by Fleury, an architect who lived on the spot, the shell was completed in 1683. The church was completed, received and blessed in 1685. A very original plan which is compared to the shape of a viol. Entirely built in brick, its architecture with colonnades, domes and cupolas is truly audacious. None of the walls of the building follow a straight line.

The church suffered greatly during the Hundred Years War (1336-1453). However, two arches of the nave, of a very primitive Gothic style, allow us to suppose that they are the remains of an old collegiate church, from the ruins of which Louise of Savoy, mother of Francis I, had the present church built.