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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bassem Mroue

Syria's dwindling Jewish community can visit one of the world's oldest synagogues again

Syria Jews - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All right reserved)

In this Damascus suburb, the handful of remaining Jews in Syria can again make pilgrimages to one of the world’s oldest synagogues where people from throughout the region once came to pray.

Syria’s 13-year civil war left the synagogue partially destroyed. Walls and roofs have collapsed. Some artifacts are missing. A marble sign in Arabic at the gate says it was first built 720 years before Christ.

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