Rah-e Danesh Synagogue
{{Short description|Synagogue in Tehran, Iran}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2024}}
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Rah-e Danesh Synagogue is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located near Yusefabad Street in Tehran, Iran.{{cite book |title=Religious Minorities in Iran |author=Sanasarian, Eliz |page=77 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2000 |isbn= }}
History
In the decade of the 1340s SH (1961–1971 AD) the number of Jews in the Yusefabad neighborhood increased dramatically. Thus a group of Jews decided to create the Synagogue in the Yusefabad street in twentieth alley. The building, which also contains a Jewish school, was built over three levels. The {{convert|240|m2|adj=on}} synagogue is located on the third floor.{{cite web |url=https://www.7dorim.com/en/pictures/rah-e-danesh-synagogue/ |title=Rah-e Danesh Synagogue
|work=7dorim.com |date=Summer 2009 |access-date=8 October 2024 |format=with image gallery |lang=en-US}}{{cite journal |author=Sohrabi, N. M. |year=2024 |title=The politics of in/visibility: The Jews of urban Tehran |journal=Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses |volume=53 |number=1 |pages=74–92 |doi=10.1177/00084298231152642 |url=https://doi.org/10.1177/00084298231152642 |access-date=8 October 2024 }}
The synagogue experienced major reconstruction in 1388 SH (2009–2010 AD).{{cite web |url=http://www.7dorim.com/Tasavir/kenisa_rahdanesh.asp |title=کنیسای راه دانش |trans-title=Knowledge Road Synagogue |work=7dorim.com |date= |accessdate=2014-06-15 |language=fa}}
See also
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References
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{{Jews and Judaism in Iran}}
Category:20th-century synagogues in the Middle East
Category:Synagogues completed in 1971
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