The Maribor Synagogue was first mentioned in 1354 and is thought to have been built in the late thirteenth century, though the article also says it was completed in the late fourteenth, so the sources conflict. It stands next to the city walls. The congregation followed the Ashkenazi rite, and Rabbi Israel Isserlein flourished here around 1450.
The Jews of Maribor were expelled in 1497, and in 1501 the building became the Catholic Church of All Saints. In 1785 it was deconsecrated and became a military warehouse. After 1811 private owners used it for merchant storage, a wine cellar, a brush factory, an art studio and an apartment house until the 1980s.
Renovations ran from 1992 to 2000, and it opened as a museum in 2001. Slovenia named it a cultural monument of state significance in 2015. The article calls it one of the oldest preserved synagogues in Europe.
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