The Ashkenazi Synagogue, also known as Beit Rachel, was constructed by brick by the Jews of Tskhinvali in the 1910s. At first it was built for the Jews, who came from Iran and Kurdistan, but during soviet period most of them emigrated and this synagogue moved into the hands of Ashkanazi Jews. This is an active synagogue and it is located in the old Tbilisi, which is a historical district. The Ashkenazi Synagogue had been on the verge of collapse for a long time. Its first restructuring took place in the 1970s.