Giudecca of Catania

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The Giudecca of Catania is the Jewish quarter in the Sicilian city ​​of Catania , which has been mentioned since the 4th century and has important buildings:

Catania's Jewish quarter

  • Giudecca di sopra (upper town) and Giudecca di sotto (lower town)
  • Sinagoga principale (main synagogue)
  • Sinagoga minore (prayer room in the ospedale degli ebrei Jewish hospital)
  • Cimitero ebraico (Jewish cemetery) [1]

history

The Jewish community of Catania (since the 4th century) is mentioned with 25 families in 1145 and rose to 68 in 1492. Within the city walls, their quarter was in the north-west of the city of Catania and expanded in the 14th century towards the south-east in order to connect with the port district. Along the corso dell' Amenano or Porta Judicello in Catania there was spring water for the Mikvah was indispensable מקוה. The Jewish quarter in Catania was divided into a Judeca suprana (upper town) and a Judeca suttana (lower town), and over time the community acquired a meskita ( Bet knesset בית כנסת), a hospital, a butcher and a cemetery outside the city walls of Catania. To reach this cemetery you have to go through the Porta della Judeca .

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