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When the Allatini Mills building was built in 1898, it was considered the largest industrial building in the “Orient” (then the catch-all term for the non-European world east of Europe). The first…
Contributor:
Vitaliano Poselli
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1900–1912
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When it was first built, the Sha‘ar Hashamayim (Gate of Heaven) Synagogue was the largest building on the boulevard where it still stands. Built to resemble what was imagined to be the design of the…
Contributor:
Maurice Joseph Cattaui, Maurice Joseph Cattaui
Places:
Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
1905
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The Synagogue Mejor is a synagogue in Bursa, Turkey, built in the late fifteenth century by Jews who settled in the Ottoman Empire after being expelled from Majorca. Its name “Mejor” commemorates the…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Bursa, Ottoman Empire (Bursa, Turkey)
Date:
Early 16th Century