Historic synagogues - Wikipedia
Historic synagogues include synagogues that date back to ancient times and synagogues that represent the earliest Jewish presence in cities around the world. Some synagogues were destroyed and rebuilt several times on the same site. Others were converted into churches and mosques or used for other purposes.
Synagogue architecture - Wikipedia
In medieval Spain (both Al-Andalus and the Christian kingdoms), a host of synagogues were built, and it was usual to commission them from Moorish and later Mudéjar architects. Very few of these medieval synagogues, built with Moorish techniques and style, are conserved.
Medieval Jewish History, 632 to 1650 | My Jewish Learning
The story of medieval Judaism is one in which the Jews lived as part of societies that aimed for purity and/or supremacy of a faith that was not theirs. Thus Jewish life was influenced significantly by the political machinations of Muslims and Christians.
Smarthistory – Medieval synagogues in Toledo, Spain
By the late Middle Ages, there were at least eleven synagogues in the city of Toledo in central Spain. Two of these—the Samuel Halevi Abulafia synagogue and the Ibn Shoshan synagogue—stand only a few blocks apart in the old Jewish quarter.
Category:Medieval synagogues - Wikipedia
Medieval Jewish history. Synagogues by architectural design.
Jews and the Arts in Medieval Europe | Essay | The Metropolitan …
Medieval synagogue architecture frequently adopted the form and decoration of contemporary Christian building. The synagogue at Regensburg, for example, built between 1210 and 1227, featured pointed arches, carved capitals and a rose window, as in a Gothic church ( 26.72.68 ).
Smarthistory – Altneushul, Prague
An important late medieval synagogue in Prague is called the Old New Synagogue because the city later gained a newer New Synagogue. It is generally known as the Altneushul in Yiddish.
tion of Medieval Jewish sources and analysis of the various forms of ritual activity and people behavior in the Synagogue. During the Middle Ages (1100-1350) Jewish communities of Northern France and Germany lived as a minority in the midst of a Christian major-ity, the explicit purpose of which was to seek to convert the Jews either by
Medieval versus Early Modern Synagogues (Chapter 1) - Jews …
A single chapter on medieval synagogues is the typical treatment that synagogue architecture from this period receives in books on Jewish architectural history.
Synagogue | Turismo de Córdoba
The Synagogue, situated in the heart of the Jewish Quarter of Cordoba, is unique in Andalusia and one of the three best preserved Medieval synagogues in the whole of Spain.