Synagogue (Avignon)

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Local place names attest to the secular presence of a Jewish community in Avignon. The old ghetto was located along the slopes of the Rocher, and Rue Vieille-Juiverie recalls this fact. In the thirteenth century, the « Carrière » was moved near to the Saint-Pierre parish, a neighborhood that also still bears marks of this history. Place Jérusalem and Rue Jacob still exist ; Rue Abraham no longer does.

Members of the Jewish community were required to live in this area, and the « Juiverie » was sealed off by three gates : the Porte d’En-Haut, the Porte d’En-Bas, and the Portalet de la Calandre.

In the midst of the Carrière, a synagogue, entirely rebuilt in the eighteenth century, was reconstructed. During the Revolution the Carrière, like all ghettos, was eliminated. At the end of the nineteenth century this part of Avignon underwent many transformations due to the laying of new roads and the enlarging or elimination of others. Stones along the ground indicate the contours of former areas of habitation. The synagogue was constructed based on the plans of the architect Joffroy between 1846 and 1848 after the previous structure burned down in 1845. www.avignon.fr/en/visites/visite3en.php

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