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Synagogue Paradesi

Name: Synagogue Paradesi
Address: Synagogue Lane, Kochi, KL, IN

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Swahel

May 15, 2015

Constructed in 1568, this is the oldest Synagogue in the Commonwealth nations. he structure is unique due to influence of native Hindu-Christian architecture and the only synagogue having two bimahs.

Jacquline

April 6, 2022

The Paradesi Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in the Commonwealth of Nations. (The first synagogue in India was built in the 4th century in Kodungallur (Cranganore) when the Jews had a mercantile role in the South Indian region (now called Kerala) along the Malabar coast. When the community moved to Kochi in the 14th century, it built a new synagogue there.) Constructed in 1568, it is one of seven synagogues of the Malabar Yehudan or Yehudan Mappila people or Cochin Jewish community in the Kingdom of Cochin.

Roshin

September 19, 2017

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Calvin

April 18, 2018

The Paradesi Synagogue is the oldest active synagogue in the Commonwealth of Nations, located in fort Kochi, Kerala, in South India. Constructed in 1567, it is one of seven synagogues of the Malabar Yehudan or Yehudan Mappila people or Cochin Jewish community in the Kingdom of Cochin. Paradesi is a word used in several Indian languages, and the literal meaning of the term is "foreigners", applied to the synagogue because it was built by Sephardic or Spanish-speaking Jews, some of them from families exiled in Aleppo, Safed and other West Asian localities. It is also referred to as the Cochin Jewish Synagogue or the Mattancherry Synagogue.