Manchester Jewish Museum
Moorish-style Victorian synagogue with stained glass, gilded columns and stories of Jewish migration.
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This guide to the Manchester Jewish Museum, in the old Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue on Cheetham Hill Road, begins with builders at work on a restoration and an object hidden under a cornerstone. It reaches back to eighteen seventy-three, to Sephardi textile merchants from Aleppo and the Iberian world who broke away to build a house of their own. Along the way you'll meet the architect Edward Salomons and the reason the walls are painted green. Best heard facing the Ark at the east end.
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