Yeniköy Synagogue is a
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 ...
located along the northern part of the
Bosphorus
The Bosporus Strait (; grc, Βόσπορος ; tr, İstanbul Boğazı 'Istanbul strait', colloquially ''Boğaz'') or Bosphorus Strait is a natural strait and an internationally significant waterway located in Istanbul in northwestern Tu ...
in the
Yeniköy neighborhood of
Istanbul
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,
Turkey
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. The synagogue, said to have been built by
Abraham Salomon Camondo in the late 19th century, has been rejuvenated recently by the renewed presence of
Jews
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who have moved into the area. Only Shabbat prayers are held there.
See also
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History of the Jews in Turkey
The history of the Jews in Turkey ( tr, Türkiye Yahudileri or ; he, יהודים טורקים, Yehudim Turkim; lad, Djudios Turkos) covers the 2400 years that Jews have lived in what is now Turkey. There have been Jewish communities in An ...
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List of synagogues in Turkey
This is a list of notable synagogues in Turkey.
Istanbul
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References
External links
Chief Rabbinate of TurkeyShalom Newspaper - The main Jewish newspaper in Turkey
Synagogues in Istanbul
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