Moses Somake

Moses Somake ( – ) was a British people, British architect known for designing several prominent buildings in British Raj, British India. His works, built before the Partition of India and located in modern-day Pakistan, include the Edward House, Karachi, Edward House, B. V. S. Parsi High School, BVS Parsi High School, Karachi Goan Association building, Khaliq Dina Hall, Keamari (locality), Mules Mansion and Quaid-e-Azam House.

Early life and career

Somake was born on 6 June 1875 in Lahore, Punjab Province (British India), Punjab Province, Presidencies and provinces of British India, British India, to a Jews, Jewish family of mixed Sephardi Jews, Sephardi (from History of the Jews in Spain, Spain) and Mizrahi Jews, Mizrahi (from History of the Jews in Iraq, Iraq) origin.

He spent most of his life in the city of Karachi before migrating to the United Kingdom in the mid-1940s.

Somake died in London, England, on 6 April 1947 from a cardiac arrest.

See also

* History of the Jews in the United Kingdom
** British Jews
* History of the Jews in Pakistan
* Sephardi Jews
** History of the Jews in Spain
* Mizrahi Jews
** History of the Jews in Iraq

References

1875 births
1947 deaths
British Jews
British people of Spanish-Jewish descent
British people of Iraqi-Jewish descent
Architects from Lahore
Jewish Pakistani history

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