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The Choral Synagogue was originally constructed in 1868-71. It was a large Renaissance-style building famous for its choir and cantors, including Baruch Leib Rosowsky and Herman Yadlovker Mandel, whom non-Jews also came to hear sing on Jewish holidays.
The building was burned to the ground on July 4, 1941.
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CJA documentation;
Marger Vesterman, Fragments of Jewish History of Riga: A brief Guide (Riga, 1991); Pinkas hakehilot: Latviyah ve-estoniyah (Jerusalem, 1988), p. 250 with ill., p. 263, 275;
Latvia: Synagogues and Rabbis, 1918-1940 (Riga, 2004), pp. 152-167, ills. on p. 154-155;
Vladimir Likhodedov, Synagogues (Minsk, 2007), ill. 418 on p. 214;
ill in Jewish National Library, Jerusalem, Archives and Manuscripts Division, TMA4214/8 (int)