The Cetate Synagogue, also called the Great Synagogue, is a vast Moorish-Revival brick-and-stucco building on Marasesti Street, completed in 1865. It is one of the largest synagogues built in central Europe in the 19th century, with seating originally for 3,000 worshippers. The exterior — twin onion-domed towers, horseshoe arches, a rose window — borrows directly from the Spanish-Moorish tradition that became fashionable for European synagogues from the 1850s onward.
The building was nearly lost to neglect after most of Timisoara's Jewish community was killed, deported or emigrated during and after the Holocaust. It has been undergoing a long restoration since the 2010s, with the interior gradually being repaired; concerts, exhibitions and occasional services are held in the rebuilt spaces. The Fabric Synagogue, in a different style, sits in the Fabric district to the east.