Practical info

Type of location: Synagogue

Italian Synagogue of Istanbul

Sair Ziya Pasa, Yosuku sokak 27, Karaköy, Istanbul

+0212 296 7784

Historical description

Beyoglu and Galata

Lying atop a hill dominating the Bosporus to the north of the Golden Horn, the “European city” of Pera grew up in the middle of the nineteenth century. A place where earlier one could find the shop counters of Genoese merchants, the architecture of ... Read more

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