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Velika Avlija (Old Synagogue), Sarajevo
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The Velika Avlija (Old Temple or Synagogue) is the oldest synagogue in Sarajevo. It served the city’s first Jewish community, Sephardim, who began arriving in Sarajevo in the mid-sixteenth century…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Sarajevo, Ottoman Empire (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Date:

1581

Subjects:

Synagogue, Community, Sephardic, Art, Aesthetics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
Photograph of room with arched stone doorways and central wooden platform.