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Islam is the city's second largest religion with a long history in Cape Town, [131] resulting in a number of mosques and other Muslim religious sites spread across the city, [132] such as the Auwal Mosque, South Africa's first mosque. Cape Town's significant Jewish population supports a number of synagogues most notably the historic Gardens ...
The South African Jewish Museum is a museum of South African Jewish life, history and identity. The museum is situated in the downtown neighbourhood of Gardens in Cape Town . It is located in the grounds of Gardens Shul , and is in the same complex as the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Gardens Jewish Community Centre (which ...
From 1880 to 1914, the Jewish population in South Africa grew from 4,000 to over 40,000. South African Jews have played an important role in promoting diplomatic and military relations between Israel and South Africa. [6] South Africa's Jewish community peaked in the 1970s with an estimated 120,000 Jews living in the country.
The South African Jewish Museum, opened in 2000, and housed in purpose-built modern buildings and in the original synagogue, known as 'The Gardens Shul', the oldest Jewish congregation in Southern Africa built in 1862. It is known as the “mother synagogue” of South Africa. [6] The twin-towered 'new' synagogue was built in 1905.
The Progressive movement in South Africa and the overall South African Jewish population reached its high point in the 1970s with an estimated Jewish population of 120 000 of whom 11 000 identified with the Progressive movement. Today the Jewish population is estimated at between 60 - 70 000 with around 6 000 Progressive Jews. [2]
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In 1951, Cape Town quit the South African Union for Progressive Judaism and refused to return until 1963. [5] The arrival of the congregation and Reform Judaism in Cape Town was met with opposition from Rabbi Israel Abrahams, spiritual leader of the Gardens Shul. He arranged a series of meetings on the perils of the Reform tradition, and upon ...
This is a list of the heritage sites in Cape Town's CBD, the Waterfront, and the Bo-Kaap as recognized by the South African Heritage Resources Agency. [1] [2]For additional provincial heritage sites declared by Heritage Western Cape, the provincial heritage resources authority of the Western Cape Province of South Africa, please see the entries at the end of the list.