A symbolic bridge between Milan and New York, with its red bricks, long, narrow windows, Gothic central balcony, and three turrets with spire roofs, it stands out among the surrounding Art Nouveau facades like a portal to another world.
Casa 770, often called “the Rabbi’s House” or “the Dutch House” for its Neo-Gothic-Flemish style that evokes the Netherlands, it is an iconic and mysterious building in the heart of Milan.
Synagogue and Study Center with a lush internal garden, a prayer room with traditional furnishings, a library with Chabad texts, and conference rooms. Menorahs, Torah scrolls, and portraits of the Rebbe Schneerson.
The only European replica of a symbolic home of the Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish community.
It’s not just a palace, but a place of worship, study, and gathering, linked to a history of exile, faith, and global “cloning.”
The house on Via Poerio, a three-story red brick building in Flemish Gothic style, stands out among the Art Nouveau buildings typical of the neighborhood.
The history of the House and “770”
The House is a “faithful copy” of the building at 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York, the historic headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
It all began in the 1940s: Rabbi Yoseph Yitzchak Schneerson, leader of the Lubavitcher dynasty (originally from Belarus), fled Nazi persecution and took refuge in the United States.
The community purchased a small Gothic house in Brooklyn for him, a refuge that mitigated his nostalgia for Eastern Europe with its Flemish style. It was later transformed into a global center of Jewish study, pilgrimage, and outreach—a beacon for modern Orthodox Judaism.
To preserve spiritual unity, the Lubavitchers “cloned” the building into 12-16 identical replicas around the world, each a symbolic “770”.
Renovated in the 1990s, today it welcomes visitors with a warm “Kansù, bevakashà” (“Please come in”).
The one in Milan is the only one in Europe, a bridge to the Chabadnic world.
Combo
Ideal for combining, just a few minutes’ walk away, with the nearby Rainbow Village and Galimberti House for a “hidden” tour of Porta Venezia.
Casa 770, the Rabbi’s House
Via Carlo Poerio 35
Milan
Lombardy – Italy
Google Map (Rabbi’s House)
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