Architectural masterpieces and stories of resilience: the diverse styles and deep historical significance of synagogues across the globe.
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In the small Belarusian town of Slonim stands one of the oldest surviving synagogues in the country, a massive baroque building whose interior still carries stucco decoration and painted traces. Long without a congregation, it is a monument of exceptional value and exceptional fragility.
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In central Sofia stands one of the largest Sephardic synagogues in Europe: horseshoe arches, patterned brickwork and an interior washed in coloured light. The film reads the building as architecture and as the record of a community.
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In a street of the old town, the Great Synagogue serves the Georgian Jewish community, whose presence in the region reaches far back into antiquity. Its brick facade and painted interior belong to that long continuity.
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Beside a spring in the Golan Heights, the remains of an ancient Jewish village have yielded one of the most ambitious reconstruction projects in the country: a synagogue re-erected from its own fallen stones, catalogued and repositioned one by one.
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Founded by Jews from North Africa in Acre, the Or Torah synagogue is unlike any other. Floors, walls, columns, ceilings and even the exterior are entirely faced with mosaic — scenes, symbols and inscriptions assembled over decades into a single, immersive work of devotion.
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Capernaum, the lakeside town central to the Gospels' account of Jesus' ministry, preserves one of the finest synagogue ruins in the Holy Land: a colonnaded hall of imported white limestone standing on the dark basalt of an earlier building.
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In the historic centre of Pesaro, in the Marche, a synagogue bears witness to a Jewish presence long woven into the life of the port town. The film explores its interior, its liturgical furnishings and the community that once gathered here.
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Built for Amsterdam's Sephardic community in the seventeenth century, the Esnoga remains without electric lighting: its immense interior is lit by hundreds of candles. Alongside it stands the historic Ets Haim library.
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Built at the end of the 19th century in the heart of old Moscow, the Choral Synagogue is the city's main Jewish place of worship. Its classical facade and domed prayer hall speak of a community that endured through a turbulent century.
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Built in the early twentieth century to designs by Lipót Baumhorn, the Novi Sad Synagogue is a major work of Hungarian Secession architecture. Its great dome and stained glass now shelter a concert hall as much as a memory.
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Built to designs by Komor and Jakab, the Subotica Synagogue is a rare complete expression of the Hungarian Secession applied to a house of worship. A long restoration campaign has returned its colour and light.
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Izmir's Karatas quarter is home to Beth Israel, one of the largest active synagogues of a city whose Jewish community traces its roots to the Sephardim who settled in the Ottoman Empire after the expulsion from Spain.
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