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The Etz Ahayim Synagogue (
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The Etz Ahayim Synagogue (Hebrew
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
: קהל קדוש עץ החיים), also known as the Ortaköy Synagogue, is synagogue located in Ortaköy
Ortaköy ( ''Middle Village)'' is a neighbourhood within the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, on the European shore of the Bosphorus. it was originally a small fishing village, known in Greek as Agios Fokas (Άγιος Φωκάς) in t ...
, Istanbul
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, Turkey
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, on the coast near the right leg of Bosphorus Bridge
The Bosphorus Bridge ( tr, Boğaziçi Köprüsü), known officially as the 15 July Martyrs Bridge ( tr, 15 Temmuz Şehitler Köprüsü) and unofficially as the First Bridge ( tr, Birinci Köprü), is one of the three suspension bridges spanning ...
. The synagogue was totally destroyed by fire in 1941 with only the marble
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Aron Kodesh
A Torah ark (also known as the ''Heikhal'', or the ''Aron Kodesh'') refers to an ornamental chamber in the synagogue that houses the Torah scrolls.
History
The ark, also known as the ''ark of law'', or in Hebrew the ''Aron Kodesh'' or ''aron ha ...
remaining intact. The synagogue was subsequently rebuilt.
See also
*History of the Jews in Turkey
The history of the Jews in Turkey ( tr, Türkiye Yahudileri or ; he, יהודים טורקים, Yehudim Turkim; lad, Djudios Turkos) covers the 2400 years that Jews have lived in what is now Turkey. There have been Romaniotes, Jewish commun ...
* List of synagogues in Turkey
This is a list of notable synagogues in Turkey.
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References
External links
Chief Rabbinate of Turkey
Shalom Newspaper - The main Jewish newspaper in Turkey
Synagogues in Istanbul Beşiktaş Rebuilt synagogues {{Turkey-synagogue-stub