Batumi's synagogue, also known as the Stone Ashkenazi Synagogue, was built in 1904 by the city's then-considerable Jewish community of merchants, shipping agents, and oil traders. The architect was Semyon Vlangali, and the building's design borrows openly from the Great Synagogue in Den Haag, which Vlangali had seen and admired — the result is an unusually elegant facade of pale stone with three rounded windows above the main entrance.
The synagogue closed under Stalin and reopened only in 1993. The community is now very small but services continue, and the building is normally open to respectful visitors during daytime hours.