Synagogues
The Jews of Usov lost their first Synagogue in the Thirty Years’ War. Sometime before 1689, a second synagogue was built but it was demolished in 1722 (see above under History for description of that episode). In the early 1780s, a third synagogue was built at the same site where the second had stood, in the center of the Jewish quarter. Services were held there up until 1938. In that year, the Nazis burnt the interior furnishings and important archives. After the war the building was renovated for use by the Czech Brethren’s Protestant Church.