The Old Ibáñez Synagogue

The school of the Jesuit Sisters occupies the site of the former Ibáñez de Segovia Synagogue, also known as the New Great Synagogue, which in 1419 replaced the building previously known by that name, located in the Church of Corpus Christi.

It was a single-nave temple, of whose original decoration practically only a single oculus remains today, cut off in its lower third by a later floor structure. This oculus must have been closed off with a latticework carved in plaster, now lost, and features exterior decoration repeating the same motif: a trapezium inscribed within a circle, and within that a six-pointed star.

The available documentation does not clarify the immediate fate of the new Great Synagogue following the expulsion of 1492. In any case, fifteen years later, in 1570, the former Jewish temple was owned by Bartolomé Ibáñez, who converted it into a residence.

This former synagogue remained a residence for over four hundred years, until 1920 when the property was acquired by the Congregation of the Daughters of Jesus, who currently own it.