Sacred Places
11 places found
JudaismGalitska Synagogue
· Ukraine · synagogue
The Halytska Synagogue in Kyiv, also known as Beit Yaakov Shul or the Galitska Synagogue, is an Orthodox Jewish house of prayer on Zhylianska Street in the Ukrainian capital, where the community follows the Ashkenazi rite.
JudaismGrande synagogue de Lyon
· France · synagogue
The Great Synagogue of Lyon, on the quai Tilsitt in the second arrondissement, is a historic Orthodox Jewish house of prayer built in the 1860s and the principal Ashkenazi congregation of the city.
JudaismItalian Synagogue
· Italy · synagogue
The Italian Synagogue, Scola Italiana, in the Ghetto Nuovo of Venice serves the Italian-rite Jewish community that grew up in the city from the sixteenth century onward, one of five historic scole within the Venetian Jewish quarter.
JudaismŁańcut Synagogue
· Poland · synagogue
An eighteenth-century vaulted synagogue in Łańcut, southeastern Poland, and a rare surviving example of the bimah-tower synagogues once common across the Polish lands.
JudaismOstia Synagogue
· Italy · synagogue
An ancient Jewish synagogue and archaeological site at Ostia, the seaport of Imperial Rome in present-day Lazio, Italy, the oldest synagogue in Europe and the oldest known outside the Land of Israel.
JudaismRemuh Synagogue
· Poland · synagogue
An Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue at 40 Szeroka Street in the historic Kazimierz district of Krakow in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship of southern Poland.
JudaismStatus Quo Synagogue
· Romania · synagogue
A Romanian synagogue belonging to the Status Quo Ante tradition of Hungarian Jewry, a middle path established in the late nineteenth century between Orthodox and Neolog observance.
JudaismSynagogue of the Ashkenazi Jews in Baku
· Azerbaijan · synagogue
The principal Ashkenazi and Georgian Jewish synagogue of Baku, Azerbaijan, gathering both communities under one roof for the prayer of Israel in a purpose-built sanctuary dedicated in 2003.
JudaismUnion Libérale Israélite de France
· France · synagogue
The oldest Reform Jewish synagogue in France, founded in 1907 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris and widely known as the rue Copernic synagogue, a flagship of liberal Judaism in the French capital.
JudaismVercelli Synagogue
· Italy · synagogue
An Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Vercelli, northern Italy, completed in 1878 in the Moorish Revival style by the locally born architect Marco Treves, who also designed the Great Synagogue of Florence.
JudaismYeshua Tova Synagogue
· Romania · synagogue
Bucharest's oldest synagogue, a Hasidic Jewish house of prayer raised in 1827 in the Moorish Revival style near Piața Amzei in the heart of the Romanian capital.