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In 1889 Žasliai had a synagogue plus two wooden prayer houses, serving Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish communities; all three burned in the great town fire of 1905. In 1906 both communities petitioned to rebuild in brick, with architect A. Filipovičius-Dubovikas designing the new buildings. The Hasidic prayer house, built 1908 south of the square, was an almost-square two-story brick building with Eastern-influenced facade elements and historicist detailing; it later served as a kolkhoz office then a household-goods shop, with a mezzanine floor inserted and its window shapes altered. The former Orthodox synagogue site now houses the Žasliai Culture Center, whose Traditional Crafts Center (in a 2016 annex) hosts rotating exhibitions and bookable folk-crafts workshops led by local artisans, covering šakotis and bread baking, kūčiukai, gira tasting, cepelinai, žaslietiškas kugelis, rye-straw crafts, doll sewing, traditional paper-cutting, cheese making, Easter egg decorating, wool felting, knitting, shepherding traditions and Advent wreath weaving, among others.