From https://www.celle.de/Kultur/Stadtarchiv/Synagoge (copied 2020):

Of the former 140 Lower Saxony synagogues that existed before 1933, only about 40 are preserved as buildings today. Two of them are used as memorials and museums. These include the more than 250-year-old Celle synagogueIm Kreise 24, which has recently served its original purpose again: since 1997 it has been the place of worship of the New Jewish Community in Celle .

Between 1676 and 1691, five protection Jews with their families and servants received the ducal permission to live in theAltenceller Vorstadt (Blumlage and Im Kreise) to settle. In 1690, these families, which consisted of around 30 people, set up a first prayer room in a back building on the Blumlage. Already three years later it was destroyed by order of the bailiff because no official approval had been obtained. When the ducal approval was given, a prayer room was re-established in Isaac Maintz's private home. The exact location of this house is not known.

Jewish Cemetery

Not in the Blumläger Vorstadt, In 1692 a cemetery was assigned to the Jewish community around four kilometers north of the Aller. Here, on today's streetAm Berge, Gravestones that are still preserved document burials from 1705 to 1953. According to the design by architect Otto Haesler, the Jewish community had a cemetery hall built there in 1910, which was torn down in 1974 due to dilapidation.

Synagogue

It was not until 1737 that the Jews in the Principality of Lüneburg received permission to build synagogues. In 1738 the "Judenschaft Celle" acquired the two plots in circles 23 and 24 and built a synagogue as a back house around 1740, a plain, half-timbered building whose interior was designed in the style of the late baroque. The two front buildings were used as a Jewish school building (No. 24) and as apartments (No. 23 and No. 24) for various community employees.

The sacrificial stick with the inscription "Aron, son of Rabbi Josua Feibelman, blessed his memory, dates from the founding period. In Celle 1740 ". This inscription is one of the few indications of the age of the synagogue. The construction of the synagogue required a high level of indebtedness to the Jewish community in Celle. It was not until the will of Isaac Jakob Gans, 1797, that the loan was repaid in the long term. As early as 1765, Gans had donated a precious foundation to the Celler synagogue community in memory of his father Jacob Gans: a pair of rimonim (thoracrons) and a tass (thoraschild), now the Collection Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam.