One of the architectural highlights of the city of Lutsk is Synagogue (also known as the "Little Castle"). Synagogue (Little Castle) - an architectural monument of national importance - is located in the historical and cultural reserve "Old Lutsk" street Danila Galitsky.

Lutsk Synagogue was built in 1620 and has long served as the religious, social and educational center of Lutsky Jews. The first known memories and studies related to the Great Synagogue of Lutsk, date from the mid XIX century. Volyn regional ethnographer and writer Tadeusz Stetsky in 1876, wrote that this building was constructed during the reign of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytautas.

Initially, at the end of the first half of XIV and XV century., The synagogue was one of the fortifications of the castle roundabout ring, it is hence the second of its name "Little Castle". For Small brick building castle from the south-west side of the square bordered five-tiered tower with loopholes. Towers and renaissance facades crowned attic. In the heart of the prayer hall stood four powerful octagonal pillars that kept cross vaults. As a source of daylight serve a wide archways.

In 1942, during the occupation of the city by German troops synagogue building was partially destroyed. For thirty years, the preservation of monuments of architecture no one did. During this time, she slowly collapsed: the western wall nearly dismantled, dungeons covered with debris from the interior disappeared Bima, moldings and all decorative elements. Subsequently, the synagogue was removed from the list of monuments protected by the state.

In 1981, the synagogue with the tower was overhauled. In order to somehow protect the ancient monument was created by the project of transforming the ruins of a sports club.