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A list of synagogues in Mexico: The historical synagogue at Justo Sierra 71 (Templo Nidjei Israel), Mexico City. This article needs additional citations for verification.
The Historic Synagogue Justo Sierra 71 (Spanish: Sinagoga Histórica Justo Sierra 71), formerly known as Nidjei Israel Synagogue (Spanish: Sinagoga Nidjei Israel), is an Orthodox Jewish congregation, synagogue, and cultural center, located at Justo Sierra 71, in the historic center of Mexico City (Spanish: Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México), in Mexico.
Today, most Jews in Mexico are descendants of this immigration and still divided by diasporic origin, principally Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazim and Judaeo-Spanish-speaking Sephardim. It is an insular community with its own religious, social, and cultural institutions, mostly in Mexico City , Monterrey and Guadalajara .
In Mexico, Jewish identity is deeply tied to the synagogue and faith practices, Unikel said – unlike in the U.S. where Jewish identity can be as much ethnic and cultural as it is religious.
The synagogue site, itself, has an archaeological record of two older synagogues under the foundation of the Polycharmos Synagogue dating to the 4th century BC. [ 60 ] The Bet Aharon Synagogue was built in 1366 then later renamed to "Kahal Kadosh D'Abasho" with the arrival of Sephardic Jews who displaced indigenous Romaniote Jews of the area.
This synagogue, known also as Knis de Cordoba, is situated at 238 Cordoba Street in the Colonia Roma quarter of Mexico City. At the time this neighborhood was home to the largest concentration of Jews from Aleppo in Mexico City. The first mikveh (ritual bath) in Mexico was established within the Rodfe Sedek synagogue. In 1982 a funeral house ...
Egypt’s Jewish population exceeded 80,000 people in 1948, but only about a dozen Jews remain in the country today. The Ark and "Menorah" at the newly restored Ben Ezra Synagogue, in old Cairo ...
There were once synagogues in Ndola, Kitwe, and Mufulira, Zambia of the Copperbelt Region, but they are now African churches. Ndola's former synagogue, now used by the Catholic Church as offices, and they built a new prayer space for church services. In Kitwe, the former synagogue is today owned and operated by the Salvation Army.