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Synagogue
Add your business for freeA directory of Greece's active synagogues -- the surviving houses of worship of the country's small, historic Jewish communities in Athens, Thessaloniki, Chania, Corfu, Ioannina, Trikala, Volos, Larissa, Rhodes, and Veroia, most now centuries old and many rebuilt after the Holocaust nearly wiped out the communities they served.
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- No photoBusinessAthens, AtticaBeth Shalom Synagogue
The principal synagogue of Athens, built in 1935 in Greek Revival style from Pentelic marble and renovated in 1975. Sephardi rite, led by Rabbi Gabriel Negrin, and the site of the community's regular Shabbat and holiday services.
5 Melidoni Street, Athens 105 53
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Claim this business - No photoBusinessAthens, AtticaEtz Chaim Synagogue
Built in 1904 by Romaniote Jews from Ioannina, this synagogue stands directly across Melidoni Street from Beth Shalom. Badly damaged in the 1999 Athens earthquake, it reopened after restoration in 2007 and is now used mainly for major religious holidays.
8 Melidoni Street, Athens 105 53
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Claim this business - No photoBusinessChania, CreteEtz Hayyim Synagogue
A Romaniote synagogue first recorded in the 17th century, left derelict after Chania's Jewish community was deported and drowned in 1944, then restored and reconsecrated in 1999. It functions today as both an active house of prayer, open daily to visitors of all faiths, and a memorial to the destroyed community.
Parodos Kondylaki 24, Chania, Crete
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Claim this business - No photoBusinessLarissa, ThessalyEtz Hayyim Synagogue
Built in 1860, this is the sole survivor of Larissa's seven pre-war synagogues. Nazi occupying forces used the building as a stable; it was restored to its original form after the war and remains in active use.
29 Kentavron Street (at Kyprou Street), Larissa
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Claim this business - No photoBusinessVolos, ThessalyHoly Synagogue of Volos
A Romaniote synagogue built in 1865 with support from the Rothschild and Hirsch banking families, serving the roughly 100-strong Jewish community of Volos with regular Friday services.
Claim this businessPlatonos & Xenofontos & Moiseos, Volos
+30 24210 25302
- No photoBusinessRhodes Town, RhodesKahal Shalom Synagogue
Completed in 1577 in the heart of Rhodes Old Town's Jewish Quarter (La Juderia), Kahal Shalom is the oldest synagogue in Greece still in active use and shares its building with the Rhodes Jewish Museum.
Dosiadou 4, Rhodes Town 851 00
+30 22410 22364
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Claim this business - No photoBusinessTrikala, ThessalyKal Kadosh Yavanim Synagogue
The last surviving synagogue of Trikala's once-larger Jewish community, this Romaniote synagogue reopened in October 2022 after a multi-year restoration funded in part by the German government and Greek Jewish communities abroad.
Athanasiou Diakou 27, Trikala 421 00
+30 24310 25834
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Claim this business - No photoBusinessIoannina, EpirusKehila Kedosha Yashan Synagogue
The old Romaniote synagogue of Ioannina, standing inside the walled Kastro near the Its Kale gate. It is the surviving house of prayer of one of the oldest continuous Jewish communities in Europe, the Romaniotes of Epirus.
Justinianou Street, Kastro (Old Fortress), Ioannina
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Claim this business - No photoBusinessThessaloniki, Central MacedoniaMonastirioton Synagogue
Built in 1927 for Jewish families who had emigrated from Monastir (Bitola), this is one of only two Thessaloniki synagogues to survive the Holocaust and Nazi occupation intact. It no longer holds daily prayers but opens for services on Jewish holidays, particularly the High Holidays.
35 Syngrou Street, Thessaloniki
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Claim this business - No photoBusinessCorfu Town, CorfuScuola Greca Synagogue
Dating to the early 17th century, this is the only one of Corfu's synagogues to survive the 1943 Axis bombardment of the old town intact, and remains the house of worship for the island's small surviving Jewish community, whose offices occupy the ground floor.
Velissariou 24, 49100 Corfu
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Claim this business - No photoBusinessVeroia, Central MacedoniaVeroia Synagogue
An 1840 synagogue standing in Veroia's historic Barbouta Jewish quarter by the Tripotamos river, maintained today as a place of remembrance for a community of roughly 850 that was almost entirely deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943.
Olganou 6, Veria 591 32
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Claim this business - No photoBusinessThessaloniki, Central MacedoniaYad LeZikaron Synagogue
Established in 1984 and dedicated to the memory of the city's Holocaust victims, this Orthodox synagogue now serves as the working headquarters and main house of prayer for the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki.
Vasileos Irakleiou 26, Thessaloniki
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