The synagogue was built between 1910 and 1914 on the site of an earlier synagogue erected circa 1867/1872.
In the interwar period, there had been two main synagogues in Constanța: the Ashkenazi synagogue, built between 1905 and 1908 in a Catalan Gothic architectural style,[REF] and the Sephardic synagogue, built in a Moorish Revival architectural style [REF].