Beth Shalom Synagogue (Athens, Greece)

Beth Shalom Synagogue בית כנסת בית שלום
Exterior of the synagogue
Basic information
Location	5 Melidoni Street Athens, Greece 105 53
Geographic coordinates	37°58′42″N 23°43′13″E / 37.9782°N 23.7203°E / 37.9782; 23.7203Coordinates: 37°58′42″N 23°43′13″E / 37.9782°N 23.7203°E / 37.9782; 23.7203
Affiliation	Orthodox Judaism
Rite	Sephardic
Status	Active
Leadership	Jacob Arar

Beth Shalom Synagogue (Hebrew: בית כנסת בית שלום‎) is the principal synagogue of Athens, Greece.^[1] It was built in the 1930s of white Pentelic marble, the architecture is an austere Greek Revival style; the building was renovated in 1975.^[2]

References

↑ International Survey of Jewish Monuments
↑ Nicholas Stavroulakis and Timothy DeVinney, Jewish Sites and Synagogues of Greece," Talos Press, Athens, 1992, p. 47

Jews in Greece

Communities	Romaniotes Sephardi Jews

Traditional centres	Thessaloniki Ioannina Larissa Kavala Rhodes (La Juderia) Corfu Chalkis Veria

History	History of the Jews in the Byzantine Empire History of the Jews of Thessaloniki The Holocaust in Greece

Synagogues	Delos Synagogue Synagogue in the Agora of Athens Kahal Shalom Synagogue Etz Hayyim Synagogue Monastir Synagogue (Thessaloniki) Beth Shalom Synagogue (Athens, Greece)

Notable	Mary the Jewess Sabbatai Zevi Avraam Benaroya Eli Modiano Gina Bachauer Mordechai Frizis Raphaël Salem Roza Eskenazi Karolos Koun Albert Cohen Salamo Arouch

Museums	Jewish Museum of Greece Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki Jewish Museum of Rhodes

Outside Greece	Kehila Kedosha Janina

Antisemitism	Rhodes blood libel Don Pacifico affair and case National Union of Greece

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Beth Shalom Synagogue (Athens, Greece)

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