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kadavumbagam synagogue in kochi, kerala, india. it's also known as the "cochin blossoms synagogue" for its floral details.

malabari jews trace their origins to jews who'd come to present-day kerala from the middle east from antiquity. the synagogue was renovated in 1700, but the original dates back to the 12th-13th centuries. it was said to have been built by jews who'd fled persecution to kochi's ernakalum district. the specifics of the story vary.

after a period of abandonment beginning in the 1970s, it was restored in 2018 by local josephai "babu" elias and is now in use again. it's currently the oldest functioning synagogue in india.

#india #kerala #architecture #interior #worship #jewish #mizrahi #abrahamic kerala #my posts #it's also the oldest functioning synagogue in the commonwealth countries but that's not a really high bar #england kicked out jews for a few hundred years until the renaissance period when they let some sephardim in #everywhere else either had ancient jewish communities that are long gone and/or didn't have extant jewish communities until #the 1500s or later or never had jewish communities at all #except for nigeria (igbo jews) but this ones still the oldest

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