Stellenbosch Synagogue
The Stellenbosch Synagogue, formally the Stellenbosch Hebrew Congregation, is an Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Judaism, Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 44 Ryneveld Street, in Stellenbosch, in the Western Cape region of South Africa. The congregation was established in 1900 and moved into its current building in 1923. History The congregation dates from 1900 and was then known as the Agudat Achim Hebrew Congregation, with Rev Zeidel as its first lay leader. Membership numbered 40 at its inception, yet increased as Jewish refugees arrived during the Second Boer War. Services were held at a private home before a house in Bird Street was rented exclusively for the congregation and a mikvah built on-site. Rev A. P. Bender, spiritual leader of Gardens Shul, consecrated the house as a synagogue in 1903. In 1905, the president of the synagogue and other senior members addressed the congregation to lament the pogroms in the Russian Empire and appealed to the mayor of Stellenbos ...
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Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country. It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of , and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 2020. About two-thirds of these inhabitants live in the metropolitan area of Cape Town, which is also the provincial capital. The Western Cape was created in 1994 from part of the former Cape Province. The two largest cities are Cape Town and George. Geography The Western Cape Province is roughly L-shaped, extending north and east from the Cape of Good Hope, in the southwestern corner of South Africa. It stretches about northwards along the Atlantic coast and about eastwards along the South African south coast ( Southern Indian Ocean). It is bordered on the north by the Northern Cape and on the east by the Eastern Cape. The total land area of the province is , about 10.6% of the country's total. It is roughly the size of England or th ...
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