List of synagogues in Africa

The list of synagogues in Africa includes both historical and active synagogues on the African continent .

Elijahu Hanavi Synagogue in Alexandria, Egypt

The Abbasyia Synagogue in Cairo, Egypt

The great synagogue of Oran in Algeria before 1918

Entrance of the Dar E Serousi Synagogue and School in the old town of Tripoli, Libya - now a city archive

The closed synagogue of Azemmour, Morocco

The interior of the synagogue of Fes, Morocco

Facade of the synagogue of al-Ghriba, Tunisia

Entrance to the synagogue in La Marsa, Tunisia

The interior of the synagogue of Zarzis, Tunisia

The synagogue of the Abayudaya Congregation near Mbale, Uganda

States

Egypt

The following synagogues are or were in Egypt:

Alexandria

• Azouz Synagogue
• Castro Synagogue
• Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue
• Eliahou Hazan Synagogue
• Green synagogue
• Menasce Synagogue
• Nezah Israel Synagogue
• Sasson Synagogue
• Shaare Tefila Synagogue
• Zaradel Synagogue

Cairo

• Ben Ezra Synagogue
• Chaar Hachamaim Synagogu
• Ets Hayim Synagogue (Hanan Synagogue)
• Haïm Capoussi Synagogue
• Ibn Maïmoun Synagogue
• Maimonides Synagogue
• Meir'enaim synagogue
• Moussa Dar'i Synagogue
• Pahad Itzhak Synagogue
• Vitali Madjar Synagogue

Ethiopia

• Succat Rahamim Synagogue in Addis Ababa

Algeria

• Great Synagogue of Algiers
• Great Synagogue (Oran)

Democratic Republic of Congo

• Beth Yaakow Synagogue in Kinshasa
• A 20th century synagogue in Lubumbashi

Eritrea

• Asmara Synagogue in Asmara

Kenya

• Synagogue of the Nairobi Hebrew Congregation in Nairobi

Libya

Tripoli

• Sla El Kebira Synagogue, now a mosque
• Dar E Serousi Synagogue, now a city archive
• Char Bishi Synagogue

Yifrin

• Yifrin Synagogue

Zliten

• Slat Abn Schaif Synagogue

Morocco

Agadir

• Synagogue Beth-El

Casablanca

• Benarrosh synagogue
• Em-Habanime Synagogue
• Tehila Le David synagogue
• Beth-El Temple

Essaouira

• Chaim Pinto Synagogue
• Simon Attias Synagogue

Fez

• Ibn Danan Synagogue

Marrakech

• Beth-El Synagogue
• Slat Laazama synagogue

Rabat

• Talmud Torah synagogue

Tangier

• Chaar Rafael synagogue

Tetuan

• Bengualid Synagogue

Mozambique

• Maputo Synagogue , Maputo , built in 1926

Namibia

• Windhoek synagogue

Nigeria

• Gihon Synagogue in Abuja

Zimbabwe

• Synagogue of the Bulawayo Hebrew Congregation in Bulawayo
• Synagogue of the Harare Hebrew Congregation in Harare

South Africa

The Jewish community in South Africa has / had the following synagogues:

Johannesburg

• Kimberley Road Shul
• Poswohl synagogue
• President Streets Synagogue
• Park synagogue
• Wolmaran's synagogue

Cape Town

• Tikvath Israel Synagogue
• Arthur's Road Orthodox Hebrew Congregation
• Garden Shul, (oldest synagogue in South Africa, 1841)
• Great Synagogue
• Green and Sea Point Hebrew Congregation
• Chabad Synagogue
• Sephardic Hebrew Congregation

Port Elizabeth

• Glendinningvale Synagogue
• Raleigh Street Synagogue - abandoned, has been home to the Jewish Pioneer's Memorial Museum since 1986 .

Pretoria

• Paul Kruger Street Synagogue (inaugurated in 1898, oldest in Pretoria, converted into courthouse in 1952)

Sudan

• Hekhal Shelomo Synagogue in Khartoum

Tunisia

Djerba

• Beit Knesset Kohanim HaDintreisa
• al-Ghriba synagogue
• Hara Seghira Synagogue (abandoned)

La Marsa

• Keren Yéchoua Synagogue

Mouansa

• Mouansa synagogue (abandoned)

Zarzis

• Zarzis Synagogue

Uganda

• Moses Synagogue in Nabugoye
• Putti Synagogue in Putti
• Namutumba Synagogue in Magada
• Nasenyi Synagogue in Nesenyi
• Namanyonyi Synagogue in Namanyonyi

Web links

• Survey of Moroccan Synagogues

See also

• Ethiopian Jews
• History of the Jews of Djibouti
• History of the Jews in Libya
• The Lemba in southern Africa
• History of the Jews in South Africa
• The Abayudaya in Uganda

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.nebidaniel.org/synagogues.php?lang=en
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated September 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ http://www.slate.com/id/2077297/workarea/3/entry/2077334/
4. ↑ http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/01/us-libya-jew-idUSTRE7900PI20111001
5. ↑ http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Mozambique.html
6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/synsa.html
8. ↑ http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/South_Africa.html
9. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. photos 
10. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. photos 
11. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. photos 
12. ↑ http://www.gardensshul.org/