In 1929, the Jewish Society for the Care of the Sick (Hebrew: Chevra Bikur Cholim) rebuilt one of the houses into a synagogue on today's Kláštorská Street. It is a simple building facing the street with its eastern facade, dominated by a pair of gothic arched windows and the Hebrew name of the society. In the right part of the building there is a long corridor through which one enters all the rooms: the prayer hall, the study room, the women's gallery on the first floor, and the corridor leading to the courtyard, where the remains of a sukkot booth have been preserved. The prayer hall is the most representative space. The pews face the eastern wall. Between the two Gothic windows is a box with the Torah. The spatial limitations of the original building are reflected in the design of the women's gallery. On the south wall there are frescoes imitating the non-existent gallery wing. The entire interior is decorated with decorative ornamental paintings. The synagogue survived World War II without damage thanks to the heroism of Anna Koperniech, a non-Jewish administrator who managed to protect the building from attacks by local residents, guardsmen or German troops. During the period of communist totalitarianism and after its fall, the synagogue was selflessly cared for by the last member of the Bardejov Jewish community, Maximilián Špíra. That is why the building is one of the best preserved synagogues in Slovakia and at the same time an impressive monument to the Jewish past of the town.
