The Izaak Synagogue in Kraków's Kazimierz district was designed by Francesco Olivierri and named for the donor Izaak Jakubowicz, a banker to King Ladislaus IV of Poland. The infobox gives groundbreaking in 1638, and it was completed in 1644. The text calls it an early Baroque building and the most architecturally important of Kraków's old synagogues. The infobox lists stone.
The vaulted ceiling has Baroque plasterwork wreaths and garlands. Conservation work revealed painted prayers on the interior walls.
The Nazis destroyed the interior and furnishings, including the bimah and the Baroque Aron Kodesh. After the war it served as a conservation atelier, a theater workshop and an exhibition space. A fire in 1981 damaged it, and it returned to the Jewish community in 1989. It is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site and an active Orthodox synagogue. The article gives no hours.
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