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Caen Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,Calvados, Normandy , locale = , municipality = , cercle = , state = , country = France , map_type = France , map_size = 250 , map_alt = , map_relief = 1 , map_caption = Location of the synagogue in France , grid_name = , grid_position = , sector = , territory = , administration = , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , heritage_designation = , architect = Guy Morizet , architecture_type =

Synagogue architecture Synagogue architecture often follows styles in vogue at the place and time of construction. There is no set blueprint for synagogues and the architectural shapes and interior designs of synagogues vary greatly. According to tradition, the Divi ...

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synagogue A synagogue, ', 'house of assembly', or ', "house of prayer"; Yiddish: ''shul'', Ladino: or ' (from synagogue); or ', "community". sometimes referred to as shul, and interchangeably used with the word temple, is a Jewish house of worshi ...

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Caen Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,Calvados, in the Normandy region of France. The president of the Israelite Cultural Association of Caen (ACI), who own the building, is Nassim Levy.

History

Before the construction of the synagogue, Jews in Caen held services in different locations around the city, notably in community buildings or the musée Langlois. With the arrival of North African Jews in France following the Indépendance of Algeria, the local Jewish community, largely composed of Ashkenazi Jews, recognized the need for the construction of a dedicated place of worship. The site chosen for the new synagogue was formerly a garage owned by a Jewish man deported during the Second World War. Seventy-five percent of the construction costs were covered by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, at the time approximately FR20 million. The architect was Guy Morizet. The first stone was laid on April 30, 1964 and construction lasted a month. The synagogue was consecrated on May 23, 1966 in the presence of Jacob Kaplan, Chief Rabbi of France.

Since the year 2000

In January 2006,

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leaflets were found near the entrance of the synagogue, making references to The Holocaust. , the community had about 150 families. Major renovations of the synagogue began in September 2020.

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Since the year 2000

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