The Jewish community planned the new synagogue after the ghetto synagogue was demolished. Vincenzo Costa and Osvaldo Armanni designed it, with groundbreaking in 1901 and completion in 1904. The article calls the style an eclectic mix of Historicism and Art Nouveau, citing Assyrian-Babylonian, Egyptian and Greco-Roman elements, and describes the interior as lavishly decorated in Art Nouveau.
The building is brick, and its aluminium dome is the only square dome in the city. The article describes no structural alterations and gives no dimensions. Commemorative plates honor the local Jewish victims of Nazi Germany and a two-year-old boy killed in an attack on October 9, 1982.
It is an active Orthodox synagogue and community center. It houses the Chief Rabbi's offices and the Jewish Museum of Rome, beside the Tiber on Lungotevere de' Cenci.
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