Monasteriotes Synagogue
Art Deco Sephardic synagogue from the nineteen-twenties, spared in wartime as a Red Cross warehouse.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Monastirioton Synagogue in Thessaloniki starts with a question: why did this building outlast so much of the city's Jewish world? It moves from a young David Ben-Gurion's first impressions of the port in nineteen ten, through the great fire of nineteen seventeen, to Ida Aroesti, the widow from Monastir who paid for this room in her husband's memory. Best heard standing facing the Ark on the east wall.
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