Portuguese Synagogue

Portuguese Synagogue

Year

1675

Type

building

Built for Amsterdam's Sephardic Jewish community (merchants who had fled the Inquisition in Portugal and Spain), this synagogue was the largest in the world when completed and remains the finest surviving 17th-century synagogue in Europe. E …

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