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shperk ([personal profile] shperk) wrote2005-12-16 03:47 pm
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The Ben Ezra Synagogue, Cairo, Egypt

Та самая, в которой найдена знаменитая Каирская гениза.



View of Hekhal (ark), Ben Ezra Synagogue  View of the Ben Ezra Synagogue Interior  

Photo by Richard Pare Courtesy Spertus Museum of Chicago

  
 


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This famous synagogue in Fostat (Old Cairo) was called originally the synagogue of 'the men of Israel', built in the year 882 on the remains of the basilica of a Coptic church that had been sold to Jews. It became known as the Synagogue of Elijah the Prophet and also as the Ben Ezra Synagogue.