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    neighborhood of Beyoğlu in Istanbul, Turkey. The congregation worships in the Ashkenazi rite. It is the only currently active Ashkenazi synagogue in Istanbul open...
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    Romaniotes and Ashkenazi Jews resided in Istanbul even before the Sephardim, but their proportion has since dwindled; today, 1 percent of Istanbul's Jews are...
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    Patriarchate of Constantinople Church of St. George of Samatya Neve Shalom Synagogue Ashkenazi Synagogue of Istanbul Ahrida Synagogue of Istanbul Italian Synagogue...
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    remains of the Hurva Synagogue as they appeared from 1977 to 2003. The synagogue has been rebuilt in 2010. The Ashkenazi Synagogue of Istanbul, Turkey...
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    platform, known in Ashkenazi communities as a bimah). Ahrida Synagogue is also the only synagogue in Istanbul at which Sabbatai Zevi, founder of the Jewish Sabbatean...
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    percent of Istanbul's Jews are Ashkenazi. The Avusturya Sinagogu (Austrian Synagogue), also known as the Aşkenaz Sinagogu (Ashkenazi Synagogue) is one of the...
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    synagogue serves Ashkenazi Jews and is also known as the 'Tree of Life' synagogue. Judaism portal Turkey portal History of the Jews in Turkey List of...
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    Caddesi 61, in the Karaköy quarter of the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, in the Istanbul Province of Turkey. The synagogue was built in response to an increase...
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    in Iran Ashkenazi Synagogue of Istanbul German-Speaking Jewry Heritage Museum Tefen Geographical distribution of German speakers Website of Austrian...
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  • The Ulus Ashkenazi Jewish Cemetery (Turkish: Ulus Aşkenazi Musevi Mezarlığı) is a burial ground of the Ashkenazi Jewish community in Istanbul, Turkey....
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    against two synagogues in Istanbul, Turkey. At approximately 9:30 a.m. local time (UTC+2.00), a bomb-laden truck that had parked in front of the Bet Israel...
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    Ottoman architecture in the 19th–20th centuries (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024)
    ISBN 9789944994262. Erbahar, Aksel (2010). "Ashkenazi Synagogue, Galata, Istanbul". In Stillman, Norman A. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. Brill...
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  • The city of Istanbul has been known by a number of different names. The most notable names besides the modern Turkish name are Byzantium, Constantinople...
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    Karaköy (redirect from Karaköy, Istanbul)
    Kaldırım Ashkenazi Synagogue, built in 1900 by architect Gabriel Tedeschi Mosques Arap Mosque with its square-shaped minaret, the oldest mosque in Istanbul to...
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  • list of notable synagogues in Turkey. Kemeraltı synagogues (list) Algazi Synagogue Ashkenazi Synagogue Aydınlı Shalom Synagogue Bet Israel Synagogue (İzmir)...
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    families. Istanbul had a Jewish community of 30,000 individuals with 44 synagogues.[citation needed] Bayezid allowed the Jews to live on the banks of the Golden...
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    after the foundation of the Republic of Turkey. Ashkenazi Jews spoke Yiddish or French and similarly shifted to Turkish. In Istanbul, many Jews would also...
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    and Ashkenazi communities existed in Istanbul before the conquest of Istanbul, but it was the arrival of Sephardic Jews that ushered a period of cultural...
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    worshipers inside the Neve Shalom Synagogue in Istanbul, Turkey. The Neve Shalom Synagogue was a Sephardic synagogue in Istanbul's Beyoglu district. It had been...
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    Shalom (category Names of God in Judaism)
    religious contexts, such as the names of synagogues and parks, including: Beth Shalom Neve Shalom Synagogue in Istanbul, Turkey Shalom Park in Charlotte,...
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    establishment of the State of Israel, about 10,000 Jews immigrated from Izmir to Israel. Algazi Synagogue Ashkenazi Synagogue Aydınlı Shalom Synagogue Bet Israel...
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    Religion in Turkey (category Demographics of Turkey)
    Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, the Neve Shalom Synagogue, the Italian Synagogue and the Ashkenazi Synagogue in Istanbul. There are also many historical churches...
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    Greece: account of the Kehila Kedosha Yashan Synagogue in Ioannina, with photos (personal site) Deborah S. Esquenazi, "The pre-Ashkenazi and Sephardi Romaniote...
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    in Istanbul. Ashkenazi Jews continued to settle in Istanbul in the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 20th centuries, and despite forming only 5.9% of all Jews in the...
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    remaining synagogues in or near the bazaar are: Ashkenazi Synagogue (20th-century, unrestored, inactive) Beit Hillel Synagogue (Avraham Palache Synagogue) (19th-century...
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  • the genetic composition of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jewish populations of the Jewish diaspora show significant amounts of shared Middle Eastern...
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    along the northern part of the Bosphorus in the Yeniköy neighborhood of Istanbul, in the Istanbul Province of Turkey. The synagogue, said to have been funded...
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  • portal History of the Jews in Turkey List of synagogues in Turkey "Ohel Yaakov Synagogue in Burgazada Island, Istanbul". Historic Synagogues of Europe. Foundation...
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    guidance of Sephardic Jewish Rabbis in Iberia. These Ashkenazi Jews who assimilated into the Sephardic society eventually gained the surnames "Ashkenazi" if...
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    anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans. The lyrics humorously refer to the official renaming of the city of Constantinople to Istanbul. The...
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