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Originally known as the Obrechtsjoel, this synagogue, located on the corner of the Jacob Obrechtplein and Heinzstraat in Amsterdam, is now named in honour of Rabbi Raw Aron Schuster, after he left Amsterdam in 1973 to move to Jeruzalem. The synagogue was the first one in Amsterdam to be built outside the former Jewish quarter in the inner city, serving those jews who had in the early twentieth century relocated to Amsterdam Zuid. It was built in 1927-1928 after a design by Harry Elte. After WWII, this synagogue became the central synagogue of the surviving jewish community for decades, though this role has now been usurped by newer synagogues.