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The statue representing the Synagogue decorates the south portal of the Strasbourg Cathedral.
The master masons and sculptors of Strasbourg had worked in the Reims stoneyards, whose style they brought with them to the Rheinish city. The allegory of the Synagoga is modelled after that of Reims, executed about 1225 and still impregnated with the style of the classicizing sculptors. But the Strasbourg Synagoga is more ethereal and unreal than its French prototype. The forward-stepping motion is more strongly marked in the hip movement and the gesture of the arms. The art of Reims had enormous prestige and influence during the Middle Ages, when it was considered the model of all arts by the whole of Europe.
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