The High Synagogue was the third prayer house in the Jewish Kazimierz (before it were the Old and New Synagogues). Built after 1556, but not later than 1563. It got its name because the prayer hall was located on the second floor. This unusual position of the prayer house was dictated by security requirements: the synagogue stood in a crowded place at the gates of the Jewish city, near Christian territory. In the late 1880s, part of the synagogue became men's and women's prayer rooms, which were located on the second floor of a neighboring house.→