Sacred Places
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JudaismItalian Synagogue
Venice · Italy · synagogue
The Italian Synagogue, the Scola Italiana, stands on the Campo del Ghetto Nuovo in Venice, a plain but luminous prayer hall raised in 1575 by Jews of the Italian rite within the world's first Jewish ghetto. Five tall arched windows light its upper floor, one of five historic synagogues still standing in the old ghetto quarter.
JudaismOstia Synagogue
Ostia Antica · Italy · synagogue
The oldest synagogue in Europe and the oldest yet found outside the Land of Israel, a Roman-era house of Jewish prayer standing among the ruins of Ostia, ancient Rome's seaport, dated to the reign of the Emperor Claudius.
JudaismVercelli Synagogue
Vercelli · Italy · synagogue
At Via Foà 70 in Vercelli, Piedmont, the Vercelli Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish sanctuary completed in 1878 to the Moorish Revival designs of the Vercelli-born architect Marco Treves, its banded stonework and onion-domed turrets among the most striking in northern Italy.