 The synagogue was established in 1872 by the Ruzhin Hasidim among the members of the Old Yishuv and was destroyed by the Jordanian Arab Legion on 21 May 1948 during the Battle for Jerusalem of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.The synagogue was left as ruins after the recapture of the Old City in the Six-Day War.In November 2012 the Jerusalem municipality announced its approval for plans to rebuild the synagogue.