Ahrida Synagogue of Istanbul
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The Ahrida Synagogue (Template:Langx), or Ohrid Synagogue, is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Ayvansaray Mahallesi, in Balat, a once-thriving Jewish quarter of the city, in Fatih, in the Istanbul Province of Turkey. Completed in c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., the synagogue is one of the oldest in the city.[1]
History
It was built by Romaniotes (Greek Jews), dating from the 1430s, from the city of Ohrid (called 'Ahrid' in Greek) in what was then the Ottoman Empire and is now North Macedonia.[1] Neve Shalom is said to have moved to Constantinople more than 550 years ago.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Sephardi Jews arrived in the Ottoman Empire from the Iberian Peninsula beginning in 1492, and soon were a larger group of Jews in population than the Romaniotes. The Romaniotes of Istanbul, as in many communities, including Thessaloniki became assimilated into the Sephardic culture and adopted the Sephardic liturgy as well as the language of the Sefardim, Judezmo.
The synagogue building, one of the two ancient synagogues in Istanbul's Golden Horn, was renovated in 1992 by the Quincentennial Foundation, in celebration of the 500th anniversary of Sephardic Jews' arrival in the Ottoman Empire. Ahrida Synagogue is known for its boat-shaped tevah (the reading platform, known in Ashkenazi communities as a bimah).[2] Ahrida Synagogue is also the only synagogue in Istanbul at which Sabbatai Zevi, founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement, prayed.[3]
See also
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- History of the Jews in Turkey
- History of the Jews in Greece
- List of synagogues in Turkey
- Romaniotes
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References
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