Český Těšín as an independent town was founded on the left bank of the Olše River, while most of the buildings necessary for Jewish life remained on the right bank, on the Polish side of the town. The only house of worship in Český Těšín at that time was the prayer house of the Orthodox association Shomre Shabos, translated as Guardians of the Sabbath.

It was not until 1925 that Arnošt Bass, the assistant rabbi of Moravská Ostrava, was appointed the municipal rabbi of Český Těšín, and in 1926 a Jewish cemetery began to operate in Český Těšín. In 1928, the Shomre Shabos Association built a new synagogue, a modern municipal synagogue for the Jewish inhabitants of the town was opened only in 1933. Later, two more private houses of prayer were built in the town.

The original prayer house of the Shomre Shabos association with a ritual bath was located in a house that still bears the name of its later owner, Moses Löbl May, on its facade. In front of this house, we reflect on the diversity of religious identities of the city's Jewish population.