synagogue

     

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Trivia about synagogue

  • From the Greek for "assembly", it's a temple for Jewish religious worship
  • A Jewish house of worship
  • John Paul II is the first pope known to have entered a mosque (in Damascus) & also one of these (the great one of Rome)
  • In 1998 the world's oldest church was found in Jordan & the oldest of these, 300 years older, near Jericho
  • The oldest of these buildings in America was built in 1763 by Isaac Touro's Newport, R.I. congregation
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Prague, Czech Republic.) I'm in Prague at one of these Jewish houses of worship; completed in the 1200s, it's the oldest working one in Europe

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