The splendor of the Turkish Temple in Zirkusgasse, praised beyond borders, can only be remembered from a few black and white photographs. Like 41 other synagogues and prayer houses in Vienna, it was set on fire and destroyed during the pogrom night of November 9-10, 1938. The property was restituted to the Jewish Community in 1952 and acquired by the City of Vienna in 1975. In 1985 - 1987, exactly one hundred years after the construction of the synagogue, the city built a residential building here.
With this plaque we commemorate all fellow Jewish citizens who had to give up their lives during the time of the inhuman Nazi dictatorship and remember an irretrievable building that went up in flames in a night of hatred and violence.