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Photograph of room with ornate columns and pews along both sides, a raised platform on the right side, and several chandeliers.

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Great Italian Synagogue, Padua

1548

Exterior photograph of intersecting walls of stone buildings with tile roofs.

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Paradesi Synagogue (Cochin, India)

1568

Interior of room with columns and short double staircase at one end and pews along wall.

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Sephardic Synagogue (Pesaro, Italy)

Angelo Scoccianti

Late 16th Century

Photograph of room with high ceiling, tall podium up short staircase with golden canopy, and rows of wooden benches.

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Scuola Greca (Corfu)

17th Century

Exterior photograph of wooden building with shingles.

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Zabłudów Synagogue, Poland

ca. 1637

Photograph of room with wooden pews, ornate Torah ark in far wall, and second story balcony.

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Bevis Marks Synagogue, London

Joseph Avis

1699–1701

Exterior photograph of stone building with arched windows, wraparound patio with stone columns, and dirt ground.

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Yeshivat Dijet Synagogue (Djerba, Tunisia)

End of the 17th Century

Photograph of rectangular room with arched windows, floor covered in sand, wooden cabinet on far wall, wooden benches on left side and along walls, and wooden lectern on right side.

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Tzedek ve-Shalom Synagogue, Suriname

1736

Nine-branched candelabrum with small carved eagle on top and crown shape on base.

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Synagogue Hanukkah Lamp (Poland)

17th Century

Crown with decoration above rim.

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Torah Crown (Bolzano)

1698/9

Torah shield decorated with vine-wrapped columns on either side, crowns across the top, and three smaller shields hanging from bottom.

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Torah Shield (Hamburg)

Tobias Völsch

Late 17th Century

Two finials engraved with designs and Hebrew inscription, with chains hanging down from bottom and hand-shaped sculpture on top.

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Torah Finials (Iraq)

1742