The building was designed by Eduard Knoblauch . Following Knoblauch 's death in 1865 , Friedrich August Stüler took responsibility for the majority of its construction as well as for its interior arrangement and design . It was inaugurated in the presence of Count Otto von Bismarck , then Minister President of Prussia , in 1866 . One of the few synagogues to survive Kristallnacht , it was badly damaged prior to and during World War II and subsequently much was demolished ; the present building on the site is a reconstruction of the ruined street frontage with its entrance , dome and towers , and only a few rooms behind . It is truncated before the point where the main hall of the synagogue began
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
New Synagogue (Berlin)