The ed-Dikke Synagogue, located 3 km north of the

Sea of Galilee The Sea of Galilee ( he, יָם כִּנֶּרֶת, Judeo-Aramaic: יַמּא דטבריא, גִּנֵּיסַר, ar, بحيرة طبريا), also called Lake Tiberias, Kinneret or Kinnereth, is a freshwater lake in Israel. It is the lowest ...

on the eastern bank of the

Jordan River The Jordan River or River Jordan ( ar, نَهْر الْأُرْدُنّ, ''Nahr al-ʾUrdunn'', he, נְהַר הַיַּרְדֵּן, ''Nəhar hayYardēn''; syc, ܢܗܪܐ ܕܝܘܪܕܢܢ ''Nahrāʾ Yurdnan''), also known as ''Nahr Al-Shariea ...

in what are the

Golan Heights The Golan Heights ( ar, هَضْبَةُ الْجَوْلَانِ, Haḍbatu l-Jawlān or ; he, רמת הגולן, ), or simply the Golan, is a region in the Levant spanning about . The region defined as the Golan Heights differs between di ...

(Jaulan), was an ancient synagogue dating from around the 5th century CE.

History

The synagogue, located at a site known as Khirbet ed-Dikke, was first identified by

Gottlieb Schumacher Gottlieb Schumacher (21 November 1857 – 26 November 1925) was an American-born civil engineer, architect and archaeologist of German descent, who was an important figure in the early archaeological exploration of Palestine. Early life Sch ...

in the 1880s. In 1905,

Heinrich Kohl Heinrich Kohl (4 May 1877, Kreuznach – 26 September 1914, Moronvilliers) was a German architectural historian and archaeologist. He took classes in architecture at the technical universities in Munich, Dresden and Berlin. In 1902 he passed the f ...

and Carl Watzinger briefly investigated the site. The building is thought to date from c. 460 CEMilson, D., "Byzantine Architects at Work at Herodium, Palaestina Prima", LA 39 (1989) 209. and consists of a prayer hall measuring approx. by . It was divided into three aisles by two rows of four columns each.

References

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