Synagogue

A synagogue is a place where Jews meet to worship and pray to God. In Hebrew, a synagogue is called beit knesset, which means, a "house of gathering"...

On January 15, 2022, a gunman, Malik Faisal Akram, entered a reform synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, United States. He took four people prisoner, creating...

The Beth Yaacov Synagogue is a synagogue in Madrid, Spain. It is the main center of the Jewish community of Spain. Artículo de El País (in Spanish) Federación...

On October 27, 2018, a mass shooting occurred at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Authorities reported several fatalities...

The Neue Synagoge ("New Synagogue") is a synagogue in Bezirk Mitte, Berlin, Germany. The building lies on the Oranienburger Straße and was constructed...

The Kabul synagogue is a abandoned Jewish synagogue in Kabul, Afghanistan. Local people know it as the "Jewish Mosque". It was built in the 1960s. At...

8974472; 35.5001000 The Maghen Abraham Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. This synagogue was very important to Jewish Lebanese...

The synagogue of Besançon (French: synagogue de Besançon or temple israélite de Besançon) is a synagogue in the French city of Besançon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté...

West London Synagogue is the oldest Reform synagogue located in London, England, United Kingdom. The synagogue was established on 15 April 1840. The current...

The Deir el Qamar Synagogue is a synagogue in Deir el Qamar, Lebanon; it is the oldest synagogue in Mount Lebanon. The synagogue was built in the seventeenth...

The Old Synagogue (German:Alte Synagoge) in Erfurt, in central Germany, is one of the best preserved medieval synagogues in Europe. The oldest parts were...

Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) is a big charismatic Christian church in Lagos, Nigeria. Its founder was T. B. Joshua, but its current leader...

(in Yiddish: בעלזא בית המדרש הגדול - "The Belz Grand Synagogue) is one of the largest synagogues in Jerusalem. It was built by the Belz Hasidic Jews,...

On 12 September 2014, a guesthouse in the Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) area collapsed to the ground. The National Emergency Management Agency...

The Magain Shalome Synagogue (Urdu: مگین شلوم کنیسہ‎; Hebrew: בית הכנסת מגן שלום) was a synagogue in Karachi, Pakistan. It was considered as the former...

seen as equal to men and are allowed to sit with the men when attending synagogue, whereas in Orthodox Judaism for example, women are expected to sit in...

allowed to not wear head coverings when attending synagogue. Hebrew is not always spoken in Reform synagogues. Orthodox Judaism - the old type of Judaism Conservative...

when Jews finish the annual cycle of reading the whole Torah out loud in synagogue. Outside Israel, Simchat Torah is celebrated on the second day of the...

changes. As of 2001, Orthodox Jews and Jews affiliated with an Orthodox synagogue, accounted for approximately 50% of British Jews (150,000), 25% of Israeli...

and there are monasteries in nearby villages. There are also several synagogues in the Câmpulung area. The pre-war Chief Rabbi of Campulung was Rabbi...