In 1868 David Levi, President of the Hebrew University, gave his possessions for the structure of another synagogue in Florence, ‘worthy of the city’. He accommodated the acquisition of a site between the new advancement of the Mattonaia and Piazza d'Azeglio. Thus, 'Tempio Maggiore Israelitico' was worked around 1874 and 1882 by the architects Marco Treves, Vincenzo Micheli and Mariano Falcini. The Temple is of travertine and pink pomato stone, in the Moorish style, halfway arranged and with a vault flanked by towers.