A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans. It has a place for prayer (the main sanctuary and sometimes...
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the decoration based chiefly on Islamic models from North Africa and medieval Spain (the Alhambra). The synagogue's Viennese architect, Ludwig Förster...
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Synagogue in Den Haag". Religiana. Retrieved 22 January 2024. Patrick D. Gaffney (2004). "Masjid". In Richard C. Martin (ed.). Encyclopedia of Islam and...
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The Oslo Synagogue (Norwegian: Synagogen i Oslo) is a synagogue in Oslo, Norway. The congregation was established in 1892, but the present building was...
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Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis was a 2022 incident where a 44-year-old man armed with a pistol took four people hostage in a synagogue in Colleyville...
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The Hurva Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת החורבה, translit: Beit ha-Knesset ha-Hurva, lit. "The Ruin Synagogue"), also known as Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid...
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was the synagogue's live-in caretaker. He also operated a carpet business out of the synagogue. The Taliban considered the synagogue un-Islamic and as...
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Historic synagogues include synagogues that date back to ancient times and synagogues that represent the earliest Jewish presence in cities around the...
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Mosque Keizerstraat (redirect from Mosque and Synagogue Keizerstraat)
The mosque is located in the Keizerstraat, adjacent to the Neveh Shalom Synagogue. The Muslim community of Paramaribo was established in 1929. Its first...
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The Synagogue of Santa María la Blanca (Spanish: Sinagoga de Santa María La Blanca, lit. 'Synagogue of Saint Mary the White') or Ibn Shoshan Synagogue is...
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build and sustain a peaceful relationship between Islam and Judaism." The area of the Beit Rachel Synagogue is 5,6 thousand square meters. meters (~ 60 thousand...
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The Islamization of Jerusalem refers to the process through which Jerusalem and its Old City acquired an Islamic character and, eventually, a significant...
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The Great Synagogue of Deventer (Dutch: Grote Synagoge van Deventer) is a synagogue in Deventer, Overijssel, Netherlands. This temple was built in 1892...
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The Synagogue of El Tránsito (Spanish: Sinagoga del Tránsito), also known as the Synagogue of Samuel ha-Levi or Halevi, is a historic synagogue, church...
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pieds-noirs in 1962, it was acquired by an Islamic community in 2016 and was scheduled to become a mosque. The synagogue was established by pieds-noirs from...
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The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym...
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The Poway synagogue shooting occurred on April 27, 2019, at Chabad of Poway synagogue in Poway, California, United States, a city which borders the north...
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Sephardic Synagogues are a complex of four adjoining synagogues located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The four synagogues include...
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Ancient synagogues in Israel refers to synagogues located in Israel built by communities of Jews and Samaritans from antiquity to the Early Islamic period...
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Pittsburgh synagogue shooting was an antisemitic terrorist attack that took place at the Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation synagogue in the Squirrel...
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Analysis. Kalman Dubov. Most of the Zhang converted to Islam. Jews who managed the synagogues were called mullahs. A high number of Kaifeng Jews passed...
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Religion in the United Arab Emirates (section Islam)
Islam is the majority and official religion in the United Arab Emirates, professed by 74.5% of the population as of 2020. 63.3% are Sunni, 6.7% are Shia...
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2024 Dagestan attacks (category 21st-century attacks on synagogues and Jewish communal organizations)
Makhachkala in the Russian republic of Dagestan in the North Caucasus. Two synagogues, two Eastern Orthodox churches, and a traffic police post were attacked...
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synagogue, known as the New Dalston Synagogue. Islam portal London portal Aziziye Mosque (London) Suleymaniye Mosque (London) Islam in London Islam in...
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proportion of Muslims in London had risen to 15% of the population, making Islam the second largest religion in the city after Christianity. The first Muslims...
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Sunni Islam is, by far, the most widely practiced religion in Tajikistan. Sunni Islam of the Hanafi school is the recognized religious tradition of Tajikistan...
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detail with some of the notable synagogues of Jerusalem that do not have their own page as yet. Beis Aharon Synagogue of Karlin-Stolin. In around 1870...
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Abdellah Ben Salem Mosque (redirect from Great Synagogue of Oran)
Oran, Algeria. Formerly the Great Synagogue of Oran (French: Grande synagogue d'Oran), it was the largest synagogue in Africa. Also known as Temple Israélite...
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Mohammad Khatami visited Yusef Abad Synagogue becoming the first President of Iran to visit a synagogue since the Islamic Revolution. Chief Rabbi Yousef Hamadani...
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The Jobar Synagogue, also Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue, was an ancient synagogue complex in the village of Jobar, now part of the metropolitan area of Damascus...
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