The Jewish history in Sarajevo goes back to the 1540s. In the following centuries, the area of Bosnia and Herzegovina was characterized by the peaceful coexistence of Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Few Jewish people have remained in the city after the Holocaust and the armed conflicts of the 1990s. This Ashkenazi synagoge, built around 1900, has escaped destruction (the Sephardi synagogue was devastated by the Nazi) and, by the early 2020s, remains the only synagogue in use in Sarajevo.