Travel & Places · Emoji 1.0
🕍Synagogue Emoji
Generally, the 🕍 emoji means a synagogue. People use it to signify Jewish faith or a connection to Jewish traditions.
The 🕍 emoji represents a synagogue building.
- Unicode
- U+1F54D
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :synagogue:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🕍 Synagogue emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as jewish emoji, temple emoji.
02 — Platforms
Synagogue emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F54D — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your synagogue looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Synagogue emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :synagogue:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F54D.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🕍 Synagogue emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F54D when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Synagogue emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the synagogue as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Synagogue emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around synagogue for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🕍 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Around the world
What 🕍 means in other countries
A straightforward religious-building icon for Judaism, used for logistics more than symbolism in most chats.
Everyday shorthand for services, holidays, or synagogue events.
Rarely used outside contexts that are actually about Jewish religious life.
Before you send it: Safe as a literal reference in any conversation; there’s no broader slang meaning to watch for.
09 — Apps
What 🕍 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the synagogue lands changes how it is taken.
11 — History
Where the 🕍 Synagogue emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the synagogue has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F54D never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Synagogue was approved as U+1F54D and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🕍 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
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