Jewish Group

We’re applying the newest technological methods to preserve the layers of our Jewish heritage,” said Inga Romanovskiene, director of the Go Vilnius tourism office. (Vilna is the German name for the city.) It’s too late to preserve the synagogue itself, of course, but by analyzing recent archaeological studies, a team commissioned by the municipality was able to virtually reconstruct the complex. The 3-D recreation went online in April 2020 as part of the city’s celebration of the 300th birthday of Vilnius’s legendary Jewish sage, the Vilna Gaon.