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Menarsha Synagogue

Damascus, Syria

The Menarsha Synagogue, also known as the Great Synagogue of Damascus, is a historic synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Damascus, in Syria. Completed in the 19th century, the synagogue was the target of a terrorist attack in 1949. The building was partially destroyed and has not been used as a synagogue since the anti-Jewish pogroms in the 1940s.

Synagogue data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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