About half a mile from the Magen David and Neveh Shalome synagogues is Beth-el Synagogue.
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About half a mile from the Magen David and Neveh Shalome synagogues is Beth-el Synagogue.
Full story here on Kolkata’s handful of remaining Baghdadi Jews. Photos taken January, 2015–>>
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Next door to the Magen David Synagogue is the “Old Synagogue,” official name Neveh Shalome. In 1825 a house was bought on this site and made into Kolkata’s first synagogue. It was demolished and rebuilt as the present one in 1911.
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