The New Town Synagogue (Nowomiejska) was built in 1686 and is the larger of the two surviving Jewish prayer houses in Rzeszów. Standing next to its older sibling, the Old Town Synagogue, it formed the centre of a Jewish quarter that before 1939 was home to roughly a third of the city. The Nazis used both buildings as warehouses; what they left behind was gutted in the postwar decades.
The synagogue was carefully restored in the 1990s and now houses the BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art — a strange but oddly effective second life. The interior preserves the late-Baroque stucco of the prayer hall and the Aron Kodesh niche where the Torah was kept. The neighbouring Old Town Synagogue, also restored, holds the Subcarpathian State Archive and is open to visitors during office hours.