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The Dura-Europos synagogue was an ancient Jewish former synagogue discovered in 1932 at Dura-Europos, Syria. The former synagogue contained a forecourt and house of assembly with painted walls depicting people and animals, and a Torah shrine in the western wall facing Jerusalem. It was built backing on to the city wall, which was important in ...
Dura-Europos [a] was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman border city built on an escarpment 90 metres (300 feet) above the southwestern bank of the Euphrates river. It is located near the village of Al-Salihiyah, in present-day Syria. Dura-Europos was founded around 300 BC by Seleucus I Nicator, who founded the Seleucid Empire as one of the ...
The Dura-Europos church (or Dura-Europos house church) is the earliest identified Christian house church. [1] It was located in Dura-Europos , Syria , and one of the earliest known Christian churches. [ 2 ]
The city in Iraq has long been “ignored entirely by archaeologists,” according to the study.
In Kitwe, the former synagogue is today owned and operated by the Salvation Army. The synagogue in Livingstone is also now an African church. There was once a Jewish community in the Copperbelt Region town of Luwansha, but it is unclear whether any former synagogue was built and still stands.
The 3rd-century Dura-Europos synagogue established in 244 AD per dedicatory inscription on ceiling tile (though remodelled from an earlier synagogue) The 4th-century Apamea on Orontes Synagogue established in 392 AD per dedicatory inscription on mosaic. Jobar Synagogue, described as 2,000 years old. The main hall is at least mediaeval.
A historic Brooklyn synagogue that serves as the center of an influential Hasidic Jewish movement was trashed this week during an unusual community dispute that began with the discovery of a ...
Archaeologists in Russia recently unearthed the ruins of a sprawling ancient building — and discovered the oldest synagogue in the country and one of the oldest synagogues in the world.