The design of the residential building with the offices of the Jewish community and a prayer room is probably a project on which only Elly Oehler (after the Second World War renamed to Olárová) worked on independently. The project, with which the architect won an architectural competition in 1947, was to be realized on the site of the former Ostrava synagogue at 14 Žerotínská Street, burned down by the Nazis in 1939.
Behind its civilian-looking façade, the building concealed the Jewish community's sanctuary, a prayer hall designed as a light-filled hall space covered by a vaulted ceiling that contained indirect electric lighting. The design was not realized, probably due to the February 1948 coup d'état.
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