A large number of Jews had moved to Bauska from Lithuania. The newcomers were rather poor and lived mostly in opposite the main town on the right bank of the river Mēmele, in the old Jewish Sloboda, where the first Jews of Bauska lived in the 18th century. Around the second half of the 19th century, Jews, who were adherents of Hasidism or Orthodox (conservative) Judaism, came to Bauska from Lithuania. For their own needs, Hasids bought a property in Bauska, Kalna Street 2, where in the second half of the19th century a house of prayer was built. Originally, it was a two-story building with a large prayer room inside. During its existence, the house had suffered several times.
As a result of the nationalist riot on the night of the 7th of October, 1922 the windows of the prayer house were demolished. But the greatest damage to the prayer house was caused by the floods in the summer of 1928. In June 1928, Zemgale was hit by heavy rains, which increased the water level in Mēmele. The logs in the river above the Plosta Bridge broke the structure created to regulate the flow of timber. The Plosta bridge was in time successfully turned side way and it almost did not suffer, but the piles of logs builded up at the abutments of the Mēmele bridge and blocked the bearing. As the water level rose and the force of the stream increased, part of the embankment was washed away on the 22nd of June. The bridge structures collapsed on the city side and one part of the bridge sank into the river. Due to the washed-up shore, several buildings and the wall of the Jewish-Hasidic prayer house collapsed. After the floods, the building was rebuilt to its current appearance. In Soviet times, there was a candy manufactury for some time, but now - "Old Town Dentistry".
