Former School Of The Sacred Heart

The New Great Synagogue 

 The school of the Jesuit Mothers sits where the former synagogue of the Ibáñez family in Segovia (also known as the New Great Synagogue) used to be. In 1419, it became the church of Corpus Christi.  

It was a temple with a single nave. The only original decoration left is a round aperture, whose lower third was cut off when an upper floor was added. On the inside, the opening must have been closed with a latticework carved in plaster, which has now been lost. Its circular decoration repeats the same motif, a trapezoid in which a circumference is inscribed and within this, a six-pointed star. 

There is some confusion in the records as to what happened to the remains of the new Great Synagogue particularly after the eviction of 1492. However, in 1570, the old Jewish temple became the property of Bartolomé Ibáñez, who transformed it into a home.  

This building remained in residential use for more than four hundred years, until 1920, when the building was acquired by the Congregation of the Daughters of Jesus, who own it today. 

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Closed to the public.