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Grand Sephardic Synagogue of Sofia

Practical info

Type of location: Museum

Grand Sephardic Synagogue of Sofia

Exarch Joseph Street 18, 1000 Sofia

+359 2 983 1273

 Начало – Софийска синагога (sofiasynagogue.com)

Historical description

Sofia

Jews reached Sofia during the first centuries C.E., the era of Roman domination. Ashkenazic Jews emigrating from Hungary and Bavaria were joined in the fifteenth century by Sephardic Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition. Until 1890, they lived in a sort of ghetto, ... Read more