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The cemetery is currently the most significant reminder of the once numerous Jewish community in Topoľčany. It was established in 1899, and burials continued at the site until 1965, when the local Jewish religious community ceased to exist. The dominant feature of the cemetery is the main building with a ceremonial hall and the gravedigger’s apartment. The cemetery is enclosed along its entire perimeter by a high brick wall. There are 968 tombstones, of which 898 are identified.
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Vila K, also known as the Dom Kollmannovcov, located on Kmeťkova Street near the historical center of Nitra, ranks among the most significant examples of Slovak interwar functionalism. It was built in 1934 for the Jewish administrator Fridrich Kollmann and his wife Etela, based on a design by Oskar Singer, a Jewish architect and one of the leading proponents of functionalist architecture in Slovakia.
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The synagogue in Šaštín was built in 1852 in late classical style, replacing an older prayer house. Designed by an unknown architect, the massive brick building with a rectangular layout became a distinctive landmark of the town. The synagogue served the local Jewish community until the beginning of World War II. After most of the Jewish population was deported or emigrated, the building was abandoned and later used as a granary and storage facility, which led to its gradual decay.
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The synagogue is located in the center of the town of Raslavice, on the boundary line of the original Hungarian and Slovak parts of Raslavice. The building, which has a rectangular floor plan measuring 16 × 10 meters was built in the early 1930s in a functionalist style, on the site of an older synagogue. It served its religious purpose only for a short time, as during the Second World War almost all members of the local Jewish religious community were deported.
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The Jewish cemetery in Hlohovec, a National Cultural Monument, is located on Nitrianská Street, on the southeastern edge of the town. Covering a total area of ​​6,086 square meters, it contains approximately 1,800 graves, of which 705 are documented. The oldest date back to the 1830s, when a large group of Jewish family members from Moravia migrated to Hlohovec.
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The building of the Jewish school is part of the Levice Synagogue cultural monument. It is an architectural gem of functionalism. Since 1853, the Levice Jewish religious community had had its own school, which was located in the close vicinity of the synagogue. By the first third of the 20th century, the old one-story building no longer met capacity or hygiene requirements, so the Jewish community decided to build a new, modern school building according to a design by Viennese architect Jacques Oblatt.
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The former synagogue, built in 1928-1931 by the Neolog Jewish community, is an important work of European modern architecture in Slovakia. In the 1920s, the community conducted an international competition to design a new synagogue that would replace an older one dating from 1880. Important architects of the time, including Josef Hoffmann from Vienna and Lipót Baumhorn from Budapest, participated.

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The Orthodox synagogue is today the center of local Jewish activities. Originally constructed in the 1920s by the breakaway Orthodox congregation, it is small, single-story structure in a quiet residential neighborhood. The basement, once the site of a mikvah (ritual bath), is today used as a shop. The sanctuary is fully preserved with its original furnishings and typical 1920s-style geometric ornamentation.
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This synagogue, built in 1897 for the Status Quo Ante Jewish community, was designed by Jakob Gartner (1861-1921), a prolific Vienna-based architect who specialized in Jewish houses of worship. Located in the center of town, the red-brick neo-Romanesque building has a twin-towered façade that faces the street. The three-nave sanctuary has a women’s gallery supported by cast-iron columns.

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