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  • 1 - 2 Hours
    Duration
    1 - 2 Hours
  • Mobile voucher
    Mobile Voucher
    Accepted
  • Accepts Donation
    Donation
    Accepts
  • Parking
    Parking
    Available
  • Drinking water Available
    Drinking water
    Available
  • Couple Friendly
    Couple
    Friendly
  • Baby Friendly
    Baby
    Friendly
  • Restroom Available
    Restroom
    Available
  • Sitting Area Available
    Sitting Area
    Available
  • Baggage Available
    Baggage counter
    Available
  • Footwear Available
    Footwear Counter
    Available
  • Cctv Available
    Cctv
    Available
  • Security guard Available
    Security guard
    Available
  • Art gallery Available
    Art gallery
    Available

Ticket

  • Adult ticket
    Adult
    05 INR
  • Child ticket
    Children
    FREE
  • Foreigner ticket
    Foreigner
    05 INR
  • Mobile camera
    Mobile Camera
    FREE
  • Still camera
    Still Camera
    FREE
  • Video camera
    Video Camera
    FREE


About

The Paradesi Synagogue is the oldest active synagogue in the Commonwealth of Nations, located in Kochi, Kerala, in South India. Constructed in 1567, it is one of seven synagogues of the Malabar Yehudan or Yehudan Mappila people or Cochin Jewish community in the Kingdom of Cochin. Paradesi is a word used in several Indian languages, and the literal meaning of the term is "foreigners", applied to the synagogue because it was built by Sephardic or Spanish-speaking Jews, some of them from families exiled in Aleppo, Safed and other West Asian localities. It is also referred to as the Cochin Jewish Synagogue or the Mattancherry Synagogue. The world-renowned Paradesi Syngagogue, first built in 1568 and reconstructed in part and enlarged over the years, can be found in the Mattancherry area of Kochi. The road that it was built on came to be known as Jew Street or Synagogue Lane, and the surrounding neighborhood as Jew Town.  The Rajah of Cochin generously allotted the community land in Cochin da Cima, or Upper Cochin, next to his own palace (now a city museum) and an adjacent small Hindu temple to service himself and his royal family.  The synagogue, today the only functioning one in Kerala, was erected for a congregation whose core had migrated from Cranganore to the north of Kochi where they were then joined by a larger group of relative newcomers from Europe and Western Asia.  The diverse influx of Jews to Mattancherry led to its designation as the Paradesi, or Foreigners’ Synagogue. 

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  • 2024-03-29T00:53:45
    Sunrise
  • 2024-03-29T13:05:22
    Sunset
  • 32.79
    Minimum temperature
    32.79° C
  • 33.99
    Maximum temperature
    33.99° C
  • 66 %
    Humidity
    66 %
  • 1012 hPa
    Pressure
    1012 hPa
  • 3.18 m/s² Light breeze
    Windspeed
    3.18 m/s² Light breeze
  • 259 W West
    Wind Direction
    259 W West

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