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Egyptian Alexandria Jewish choir of Rabbin Moshe Cohen at Samuel Menashe synagogue, Alexandria. Jewish girls from Alexandria in 1955 for their confirmation service, a ritual similar to a Bat Mitzvah. The history of the Jews in Alexandria dates back to the founding of the city by Alexander the Great in 332 BCE. [1]
The Sasson Synagogue, officially the Jacob Sasson Synagogue, is a former Jewish synagogue, that was located on Rue Temple Sasson, in the Glymenopoulo neighborhood of Alexandria, Egypt. The synagogue was completed in 1910 [ 1 ] and, despite its misspelling, was named in honour of Jacob Sassoon .
The separate synagogue that he founded, the Menasce Synagogue, opened to great fanfare on December 30, 1872, [4] [5] [a] with the ceremony attended by the Ottoman Governor of Alexandria. Although the Alexandria coastline was bombed ten years later in the Anglo-Egyptian War , the synagogue survived intact.
The synagogue was included on the 2018 World Monuments Fund list of monuments at risk. [7] Following its restoration, the synagogue was rededicated in January 2020, with three Jews present at the ceremony. [8] [9] Although services are still held in the synagogue, it now caters to a very small community due to the dwindling number of Jews in ...
Inside the synagogue were lavish marble columns and a fenced off section for Torah scrolls and scripture reading. The richly decorated synagogue was filled with marble columns, according to ...
The two synagogues, or shuls, are the first proposed in the area since the township changed its zoning for houses of worship from 10 to 2 acres.
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