Kahal Shalom Synagogue
Sixteenth-century Sephardic sanctuary with a black-and-white pebble-mosaic floor and a centered reading table facing Jerusalem.
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This guide to the Kahal Shalom Synagogue in Rhodes opens with a fifteenth-century Italian rabbi's praise for the Jewish community of the Juderia, the neighborhood of silk weavers, gunsmiths and traders whose trade money built this sanctuary in 1577. You'll hear about the black-and-white pebble mosaic underfoot, the Sephardic reading table facing Jerusalem, and the Ladino-speaking families who filled these benches for nearly four centuries. Look for the same pebble pattern in the streets outside, likely laid by the same local hands.
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