From the street, the synagogue exterior appears as a seven-pillared colonnade, hiding the actual building behind it. Entrance is from a narrow courtyard, accessed from the street via a passage in the westernmost bay of the façade. The central hall of the interior is a large sanctuary with a modern steel-concrete construction combined with historicist elements, such as the arcade of the women’s gallery, a metallic bimah, and the ark. These were supplemented with contemporary Cubist details – typical for the Bratislava architecture in the 1920s.

The synagogue complex combines traditional religious requirements, such as separation of genders and placement of the bimah in the center, with the needs of an urban congregational life. Modern facilities, cloak-rooms, toilets, and an array of additional rooms for study and social gatherings cluster along the western side of the building. The synagogue is owned by the Bratislava Jewish Community and still serves its original purpose.

His most important design from this period is this synagogue, the synagogue on Heydukova Street, which he built in 1923-1924 for the Bratislava Orthodox Jewish community. Szalatnai was a pioneer of modern architecture in Slovakia, carrying out extensive work in Bratislava, Piestany, Trencianske Teplice, Komarno and elsewhere. He was popular among the Jewish middle class, becoming a sought-after specialist for villas and residential houses, sanatoria and spa complexes. Szatalnai contributed to the Bratislava architectural journals Forum and Slovensky stavitel as well as to foreign publications. He was particularly interested in the urbanism of Slovak towns and also collected material on folk architecture.