The wooden synagogue of Gombin was built in 1710 and restored in 1893. Despite all the fires that occurred in Gombin, the synagogue was never damaged. A town legend spread that ancient rabbis had blessed the synagogue that it would never burn down. In 1939, however, Nazi officers destroyed the synagogue by setting it and the surrounding Jewish community structured on fire.

Background on Polish Synagogues      Wooden Synagogues of Poland in the 17th and 18th Centuries      Synagogues in Poland and Their Destruction      Wooden Synagogues Film Account of the Destruction of the Gombin Synagogue

A sketch of the Gombin wooden synagogue made by artist Grzegorz Worobjew in 1893, just before the synagogue's restoration.