Kether Torah Synagogue of Sousse

Coordinates: 35°49′56″N 10°38′23″E / 35.832356°N 10.639659°E

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Kether Torah Synagogue
Hebrew: כתר תורה Arabic: كنيس كتر التوراة
The Torah ark in the synagogue, in 2006
Religion
Affiliation	Judaism
Ecclesiastical or organisational status	Synagogue
Status	Active
Location
Location	Sousse, Sousse Governorate
Country	Tunisia
Location of the synagogue in Tunisia
Geographic coordinates	35°49′56″N 10°38′23″E / 35.832356°N 10.639659°E / 35.832356; 10.639659
Architecture
Type	Synagogue architecture
Founder	Chief Rabbi Yossef Guez
Completed	1913

The Keter Torah Synagogue (Hebrew: כתר תורה; Arabic: كنيس كتر التوراة) is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the city of Sousse, in the Sousse Governorate of Tunisia.

History

The city of Sousse has had a large Tunisian Jewish community dating from the Punic period. An 1853 census counted 400 Jewish families in Sousse.^[1]

It is in this context that Keter Torah Synagogue was built in 1913^[2] at the initiative of Yossef Guez, Chief Rabbi of Sousse and the first native Tunisian Chief Rabbi.^[1] The synagogue is the main synagogue in the city.

In 1946, the Jewish community in Sousse numbered 3,500 but continued to decrease. As of 2006^[update], there were 36 Jews left in Sousse.^[3] Sousse once had six synagogues, today only Keter Torah is operational.^[1]

On December 6, 2019, the National Heritage Institute of Tunisia announced that the synagogue was placed on the list of heritage sites of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Synagogue Keter Torah, Sousse, Tunisia". archive.diarna.org. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
^ Walid Mejri (February 25, 2015). "Yves Eliahou, gardien du trésor des juifs en Tunisie". inkyfada.com (in French). Archived from the original on November 10, 2018. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
^ "Les juifs de Sousse: Histoire, origine, communauté, synagogues". Tunisie Généalogie (in French). May 19, 2018. Retrieved November 4, 2020.
^ "Trois monuments tunisiens inscrits sur la liste définitive du patrimoine civilisationnel dans le monde islamique". webmanagercenter.com (in French). December 7, 2019. Retrieved October 26, 2020.

Bibliography

Bismuth-Jarrassé, Colette; Jarrassé, Dominique (2010). Synagogues de Tunisie : monuments d'une histoire et d'une identité. Patrimoines (in French). Le Kremlin-Bicêtre: Esthétiques du divers. pp. 276–278. ISBN 978-2-9533041-2-1.

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Active	Kohanim (Djirt) El Ghriba Bet Mordechai (La Goulette) Kether Torah (Sousse) Grand (Tunis) Keren Yéchoua Zarzis
Former	El Hamma Hara Seghira Kairouan Mouansa Or Thora (Tunis)
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