Jews lived in the suburb of Piaski at least since the 18th century. Legend has it that this is where the oldest Lublin Jewish settlement came into being, founded by King Casimir the Great. The Piaski Jews were affiliated with the Lublin Kehillah, or Jewish Congregation, as an autonomous group. The Piaski synagogue, at first wooden and then brick from 1864, was the only religious building in this part of the city until 1916, when a Catholic church was erected nearby. The synagogue was destroyed by the Nazis during WWII, and its foundations were used after the war for the construction of a Polish-Catholic church, inside of which a plaque has been put up informing about the history of this place.