Temple Emil was a

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. Consecrated in 1924, it was the first synagogue in the Philippines and was funded by the family of

Emil Bachrach Emanuel Maurice "Emil" Bachrach (4 July 1874 – 28 September 1937) was a Russian Jewish-born American entrepreneur and philanthropist in the Philippines. Career Emil arrived in the United States from Russia at the age of 18. Soon after, in 1901, ...

, an

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. It was destroyed in

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during the 1945 Battle of Manila which led to the end of the Japanese occupation. It was situated along

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. The building exhibited a

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style. The Beth Yaacov Synagogue would be built in 1982 to replace Temple Emil in another site in

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