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    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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  • Thumbnail for Dohány Street Synagogue
    the Great Synagogue (Hungarian: Nagy zsinagóga) or Tabakgasse Synagogue (Yiddish: Tabak-Shul), is a Neolog Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on...
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    Governors. Eliahu Hanavi Synagogue model Model of The Great Sephardi Synagogue, Florence, Tuscany, Italy Model of Beth Shalom Synagogue in Pennsylvania, designed...
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  • Thumbnail for Hurva Synagogue
    The Hurva Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת החורבה, romanized: Beit ha-Knesset ha-Hurva, lit. 'The Ruin Synagogue'), also known as Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid...
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  • Thumbnail for Grand Synagogue of Nuremberg
    The Grand Synagogue of Nuremberg was a former Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Nuremberg (German: Nürnberg), in the state of Bavaria...
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    Synagogue architecture often follows styles in vogue at the place and time of construction. There is no set blueprint for synagogues and the architectural...
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  • Thumbnail for Dura-Europos synagogue
    The Dura-Europos synagogue was an ancient Jewish former synagogue discovered in 1932 at Dura-Europos, Syria. The former synagogue contained a forecourt...
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    oldest synagogue of the Malabar Jews with a Sefer Torah scroll and offering occasional services. The synagogue is modelled on the earliest synagogue of the...
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  • Thumbnail for Jerusalem Great Synagogue
    The Jerusalem Great Synagogue (Hebrew: בֵּית הַכְּנֶסֶת הַגָּדוֹל בּיְרוּשָׁלַיִם) is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 56 King...
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  • Thumbnail for Gaza synagogue
    The Gaza synagogue is a former ancient Jewish synagogue, that was built in 508 CE during the Byzantine period, Located in the ancient port city of Gaza...
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    inaugurate their own synagogue, the Great Synagogue, which stood opposite to the Sephardic Esnoga Synagogue. Soon after, several other synagogues were built, among...
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  • Thumbnail for Knesset Eliyahoo Synagogue
    The Knesset Eliyahoo Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת אליהו, lit. 'Gathering of Elijah'), also Knesset Eliyahu and the Blue Synagogue, is an Orthodox Jewish...
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  • Thumbnail for Nefusot Yehuda Synagogue
    "Flemish Synagogue, Gibraltar" redirects here. The Nefusot Yehuda Synagogue, officially the K K Nefusot Yehuda Synagogue, more commonly known as the Flemish...
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  • Thumbnail for Karlsruhe Synagogue
    The Karlsruhe Synagogue (German: Synagoge Karlsruhe) was a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Karlsruhe, in the state of Baden-Württemberg,...
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  • Thumbnail for Great Synagogue (Warsaw)
    The Great Synagogue of Warsaw (Polish: Wielka Synagoga w Warszawie) was a former Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, that was located on Tłomackie...
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  • Thumbnail for List of wooden synagogues
    The list of wooden synagogues shows destroyed and extant synagogues, the builders of which adapted an architecture traditional in Central and Eastern Europe...
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  • Thumbnail for Grand Choral Synagogue (Saint Petersburg)
    The Grand Choral Synagogue of Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербургская Большая Хоральная Синагога, romanized: Sankt-Peterburgskaya Bolshaya Khoralnaya...
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  • Thumbnail for Brodsky Synagogue (Odesa)
    The Brodsky Synagogue is a Reform Jewish synagogue, located at Zhukovskoho Street 18, in Odesa, Ukraine. Completed in 1868 by Jews from Brody, it was the...
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  • Thumbnail for Poway synagogue shooting
    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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  • Thumbnail for Wooden synagogues in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
    Wooden synagogues are an original style of vernacular synagogue architecture that emerged in the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The style developed...
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  • congregation members led to the synagogue closing its doors in 1994. The relocated synagogue was built on the model of the Great Synagogue, whose own architecture...
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  • Thumbnail for Maharshal's Synagogue
    The Maharshal's Synagogue (Polish: Synagoga Maharszala), also known as the Great Lublin Synagogue (Yiddish: מהרשל־שול), was a former Orthodox Jewish congregation...
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  • Thumbnail for Shaarai Torah Synagogue (Worcester, Massachusetts)
    Shaarai Torah Synagogue (Hebrew: שַׁעֲרֵי תּוֹרָה, lit. 'Gates of Learning') is an historic former Modern Orthodox Jewish synagogue building located at...
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  • Thumbnail for Halle synagogue shooting
    The Halle synagogue shooting occurred on 9 October 2019 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, and continued in nearby Landsberg. After unsuccessfully trying...
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  • Thumbnail for Central Synagogue of Aleppo
    Ḥalab al-Markazī), also known as the Great Synagogue of Aleppo, Joab's Synagogue or Al-Bandara Synagogue (Arabic: كنيس البندرة), is a former Jewish place...
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  • Thumbnail for Great Synagogue (Lutsk)
    The Great Synagogue is a former Orthodox Jewish synagogue, located at 33 Karaimska Street, in the Jewish quarter of Lutsk (Polish: Łuck), in Volynska...
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  • Thumbnail for High Synagogue (Prague)
    The High Synagogue, also called the Josefov Vysoká Synagogue (Czech: Vysoká synagoga), is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Červená ulice...
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  • Thumbnail for Wołpa Synagogue
    The Wołpa Synagogue was a synagogue located in the town of Vowpa, in what is now western Belarus. It was reputed to be the "most beautiful" of the wooden...
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  • Soho Synagogue was an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 43 Crosby Street, in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, New...
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  • Thumbnail for Hechal Yehuda Synagogue
    Hechal Yehuda Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת היכל יהודה, romanized: Beit haKnesset Hechal Yehuda), also commonly known as the Recanati synagogue (Hebrew: בית...
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