Ashkenazi Synagogue (Istanbul)
The Ashkenazi Synagogue ( Turkish Eşkenazi Sinagogu , Askenazi Sinagogu , also Avusturya Sinagogu , Austrian Temple ) is an Ashkenazi synagogue near the Galata Tower in the Karaköy neighborhood of Pera (now Beyoğlu in Istanbul , Turkey ). The Torah shrine with the Bima and Ner Tamid has been preserved to this day. There are still numerous Torah scrolls in the Torah shrine .
history
In place of a synagogue built in 1866, German-speaking Ashkenazi Jews of Austrian origin built a new synagogue, which opened in September 1900. Today it is the last of the three remaining synagogues that were built by Ashkenazi Jews, as Ashkenazim make up only four percent of Turkish Jews . Synagogue visits can be made every morning on weekdays.
Weddings, bar mitzvas and other religious ceremonies in the Ashkenazi tradition are held in the synagogue . The Rabbi David Marcus, who also founded the Jewish School Bene Berit was until his death in 1938 in office. Mendy Chitrik has been a rabbi of the Ashkenazi community since 2003.
Web links
- Robert Schild. 100 years of the Ashkenazi Synagogue in Istanbul. A look back at German-speaking Judaism in Galata
- Robert Schild: The "Austrian Temple" in Istanbul, in: David, No. 123/2020 , in the print edition p. 46f
Individual evidence
- ^ Assembly of Turkish American Associations - History of Jews in Turkey. Archived from the original on April 8, 2007 ; Retrieved April 22, 2007 .