Alongside functioning as a synagogue, in 1932 the building also began to house the Jewish Workers’ Theatre, which put on performances in Yiddish. But, as a result of Soviet anti-religious propaganda, in 1934 the building stopped functioning as a synagogue altogether and continued exclusively as a theatre until 1940. Later, it became a warehouse storing construction materials and then the administrative building of the Azerbaijan Hydrotechnics and Melioration Scientific Research Institute until 1979. Then it stood abandoned for about 10 years.