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The Kadavumbagam Synagogue received its name (which means “by the side of the landing place”) from its peripheral location at the border of the Cochin Jewish neighborhood, where it served the Malabari…
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Cochin, Kingdom of Cochin (Ernakulam, India)
Date:
1539–1544, 17th–18th Century
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Tombstone of a son of Ephraim Cohen, who was buried in a Jewish cemetery in Cochin, India. The first Jewish communities in Cochin were established as early as 1000 CE, and legends claim that Jews were…
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Cochin, Kingdom of Cochin (Ernakulam, India)
Date:
1702
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Built in the early fifteenth century and rebuilt in 1614 following a fire, the Chendamangalam Synagogue served members of the Malabari Jewish community, descendants of Cochin’s earliest Jews, who are…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Cochin, Kingdom of Cochin (Ernakulam, India)
Date:
1614