Synagogues around the world

Synagogues around the world

Hatikvah, 2000 years of waiting

A significant number of synagogues were destroyed during the Spanish, Ukranian Cossack and Russian progroms (= from Russian 'to destroy') between the 14th and 19th centuries. The unspeakably cruel Spanish Inquisition, Cossacks and Tsars are gone, but Israel is back.
In Germany, after centuries of high taxes for Jews (called 'protection money') and numerous Jewish expulsions from German cities, before and during World War 2 (1933-1945), the German National Socialists destroyed 33,914 Jewish Houses of Worship, called Synagogues. The Nazi's are gone, but Israel is here today to stay.
In 1948, Muslims from the official Palestinian state of Jordan destroyed or desecrated 58 synagogues in Jerusalem. Today, they are morally bankrupt, and Israel is thriving (Gen12).
in October 2023, Muslim Iran, Hamas, Hezb & Houthis attacked Israel civilian centers with over 30,000 missiles. Today, they are gone, Israel is still here

Since 9/11/2001 (From James Garlow’s book, 2016, “Well Versed”):
'At least 95% of all ongoing wars and violence have roots in Islam.
There were 28,348 deadly Islamic terrorist attacks worldwide since 9/11.

450 out of 452 suicide attacks since 9/11 had Islamic origins.

10% of all Muslims in Western democracies raise their hand in favor of terrorism.'

Synagogues attacked - set ablaze, firebombed, rammed by cars and vandalized, within months after the barbaric Iran-funded muslim massacre of 1200+ and the kidnap of 250 Jews (incl 19 American citizens) on 07oct23

Europe Died In Auschwitz

Here a small sample of what was during 2000 years of diaspora and some of what remains:

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‘Synagogen’ by van Lieshout, 4000 years history

1st cent. Tiberias, Israel

2d cent. Dura Europos, Roman Syria

2d cent. Dura Europos, Roman Syria

2d cent. Sardes, Asia Minor

2d cent. Sardes, Asia Minor

3d cent. Kefar Baram, Northern Israel

3d cent. Kefar Baram, Northern Israel

pre-4th cent, Chorazim, Kafernaum, N.Israel

pre-4th cent, Kafernaum, N.Israel

pre-916, Aleppo, Syria

1400, Ramban Synagogue, Jerusalem, destroyed by muslims in 1472

1568, Cochin Synagogue, Kerala, India, founded by Dutch Jews

1639, Portuguese Synagogue, Amsterdam

1671, Esnoga Synagogue, Amsterdam

1796 Sha'ar HaRahamim (Juni Masjid) Synagogue, Mumbai, India

Gerazim, Samaria, ‘Fields white with harvest’ (John4:35)

1163, Kai Feng Fu Synagogue, China

1640, Zabludow Synagogue, Poland, destroyed by Nazis

1763, Touro Synagogue, Newport. USA

Restored 1890 (but pre-islamic), Ben Ezra Synagogue, Cairo

1400, Ramban, Israel - 45 years (1993)

15th cent, Abuhaf Synagogue, Safed, Israel

1568, High (Vysoka) Synagogue, Prague, Czechia, Europe’s oldest synagogue

Moses & Elijah Chairs, Morocco

17th century (1920) Roben Bensadoun Synagogue, Fez, Morocco, lighting lamps in remembrance

Rabat, Tunesia

17th cent, Etz Hayyim, Chania, Crete

1724 (1800), Bikur Holim Synagogue, Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey)

1733, Beit El synagogue, Jerusalem, destroyed by muslim Jordan in 1948

1766 Uylenburg Synagogue, Amsterdam

1841, Capetown, South Africa

1859, the Great Synagogue of Budapest

1860 Tiferet Synagogue, Jerusalem

1878, Synagogue, Sydney, Australia

1900, New Synagogue, Szeged, Hungary

1570, Great (Old) Synagogue of Krakov, Poland, destr 1943

1837, Grand Synagogue of Tunis

1906 Choral (Great) Synagogue of Moscow

1897 Shearith Great Synagogue of New York (1st Congr 1654)

1840, 'the 12 Tribes', Lange Begijnestraat Synagogue, Haarlem, Neth

1842, Synagoge Bourtange, Groningen, Neth

1849, Geelong, Australia

1866, Neue Synagoge, Berlin, Germany

1756 (1906), Groningen, Neth

1811, Synagoge Nieuwerschans, Groningen, Neth

1832, Synagoge Bergen op Zoom, Neth

1845, Synagoge Sliedrecht, Neth

1853, Synagoge Meerssen, Limburg, Neth

1854, Synagoge Winschoten, Groningen, Neth

1857, Synagoge Aalten, Gelderland, Neth

1866, Synagoge Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Neth

1890, Rosh Pino (now Beit Yaacov) Synagogue, Gomel, Belorussia

1880's, Debrecen Orthodox Synagogue, Hungary

1911, Great Synangogue, Tiblisi, Georgia

A Moscow Synagogue

Hebrew Liturgical prayer 'Our Father'

A simple 'stiebl' Synagogue

1957, Israel Goldstein Synagogue, Jerusalem

1966, Bet ha-knesset Synagogue

1925, Huntington, WV, America

1956 Temple Emanuel, Sydney, Australia

1956, Temple Emanuel, Sydney

1966 Jacob Soetendorp Synagogue, Amsterdam, Neth

1926, Great Synagogue, Tel Aviv

1958, Great Synagogue of Jerusalem, Gateway to Heaven

1958, Great Synagogue, Jerusalem

1958, Thora Scrolls, Great Synagogue, Jerusalem

1931 Synagogue Ohel Moed, Tel Aviv

1938 (1957) Haifa Mt Carmel Synagogue

1980 Iraqi community Beersheva Central Synagogue

1958 Jerusalem Great Synagogue

'En Zij Werden Verstrooid' ('Zerstreut unter alle Volken'), Werner Keller (1966)

1163, Kai Feng Fu Synagogue, China

3d century, 2-storied Synagogue

12th Century Alsace Synagogue

11th cent. Worms Synagogue, with Rasji chapel

11th cent., Rasji Chapel, Worms, used by Luther

8-15th century, Cordoba, Spain

1180, Toledo, Spain, former Synagogue (now St Maria)

1360, Toledo, Spain, former Synagogue Wall Ornaments (now El Transito)

16th Century Synagogue Furth, Bavaria

1636, Pernambuco, Brazil, South America’s oldest congregation

17th century German and Portuguese Synagogues, Amsterdam

1675, Portuguese Synagogue, Amsterdam

1690, Pogrzebyszcze, Poland, destroyed by Nazis in WW2

1714, Berlin’s Oldest (Alte) Synagogue, destroyed by Nazis in 1942

1853, Rodeph Synagogue, New York

1986 The Jewish World

1524, Maimonides Temple, Venice

14th century Spanish Synagogue

1435 Italian Haggadah in Tabernacle

1764, Instanbul Synagogue Jerusalem

Chartres Square Synagogue, Algeria, replaced 1837

1750 Lengnau Synagogue CH

1764 Endingen Synagogue, CH

1859 Pest Synagogue, Hungary

1861 New Cologne Synagogue

1637 Zablodow Synagogue, Poland

1667 Kirchheim Synagogue, Bavaria, active until 1909

18th Century Synagogue, holding up the Scroll

1800 (rebuilt 1814) Grojec Synagogue, Poland

1838 Great Helen Street Synagogue, London

785-745BC Israel, Judea & Samaria

1899 Western Temple Wall, Focus of Jewish Devotion

1920 Herbert Samuel, first Jewish governor of the Holy Land since 70AD, was the first Jewish authority to enter a synagogue since the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD. While reading the Thora (in Hebrew) he cited Psalm 102:13,14 - "You will arise and have compassion on Sion, for it is the time to show favor to her; the appointed time has come (102:16 - "for the Lord will rebuild Zion")" and from Isaiah 40:1,2 - "Comfort my People, says the Lord your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem and proclaim that her hard service has been completed". Few were able to contain their emotions!'