diff --git a/clang/lib/Format/UnwrappedLineParser.cpp b/clang/lib/Format/UnwrappedLineParser.cpp
--- a/clang/lib/Format/UnwrappedLineParser.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/Format/UnwrappedLineParser.cpp
@@ -1523,8 +1523,16 @@
         // structural element.
         // FIXME: Figure out cases where this is not true, and add projections
         // for them (the one we know is missing are lambdas).
-        if (Style.BraceWrapping.AfterFunction)
+        if (Style.Language == FormatStyle::LK_Java &&
+            Line->Tokens.front().Tok->is(Keywords.kw_synchronized)) {
+          // If necessary, we could set the type to something different than
+          // TT_FunctionLBrace.
+          if (Style.BraceWrapping.AfterControlStatement ==
+              FormatStyle::BWACS_Always)
+            addUnwrappedLine();
+        } else if (Style.BraceWrapping.AfterFunction) {
           addUnwrappedLine();
+        }
         FormatTok->setType(TT_FunctionLBrace);
         parseBlock();
         addUnwrappedLine();
diff --git a/clang/unittests/Format/FormatTestJava.cpp b/clang/unittests/Format/FormatTestJava.cpp
--- a/clang/unittests/Format/FormatTestJava.cpp
+++ b/clang/unittests/Format/FormatTestJava.cpp
@@ -431,6 +431,24 @@
   verifyFormat("synchronized (mData) {\n"
                "  // ...\n"
                "}");
+
+  FormatStyle Style = getLLVMStyle(FormatStyle::LK_Java);
+  Style.BreakBeforeBraces = FormatStyle::BS_Custom;
+
+  Style.BraceWrapping.AfterControlStatement = FormatStyle::BWACS_Always;
+  Style.BraceWrapping.AfterFunction = false;
+  verifyFormat("synchronized (mData)\n"
+               "{\n"
+               "  // ...\n"
+               "}",
+               Style);
+
+  Style.BraceWrapping.AfterControlStatement = FormatStyle::BWACS_Never;
+  Style.BraceWrapping.AfterFunction = true;
+  verifyFormat("synchronized (mData) {\n"
+               "  // ...\n"
+               "}",
+               Style);
 }
 
 TEST_F(FormatTestJava, AssertKeyword) {