Synagogue of Barcelona

{{Short description|Synagogue in Barcelona, Spain}}

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| native_name = {{langx|es|Sinagoga de la Comunidad Israelita de Barcelona}}

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| location = 24 Carrer de l'Avenir, Barcelona, Catalonia

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| footnotes = {{cite web |url=https://historicsynagogueseurope.org/browser.php?mode=set&id=26273 |title=Synagogue of the Jewish Community of Barcelona |work=Historic Synagogues of Europe |publisher=Foundation for Jewish Heritage and the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem |date=n.d. |access-date=6 September 2024 }}

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The Synagogue of Barcelona, officially, the Synagogue of the Jewish Community of Barcelona ({{langx|es|Sinagoga de la Comunidad Israelita de Barcelona}}), is a Jewish congregation, synagogue, and cultural center, located at 24 Carrer de l'Avenir, in the city of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. Completed in 1954, the three-story building provides a place of worship with two synagogues, one Sephardic and the other Ashkenazi,{{cite web |url=http://www.hadassahmagazine.org/2011/03/16/barcelona/ |title=The Jewish Traveller: Barcelona |website=Hadassah Magazine |last=Furmansky |first=Dyana Z. |date=March 2011 |accessdate=11 September 2016}} and also has a library and a conference room.{{cite web |url=http://www.cib.cat/know-us/history/?lang=en |title=Our History |work=Comunidad Israelita de Barcelona |date= |access-date= }}{{self-published-inline|date=September 2024}}

History

On 18 January 2015 the temple held an homage to the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris.{{cite web |url=https://www.catalunyareligio.cat/ca/articles/67210 |title=Jueus catalans i dues iniciatives interreligioses rebutgen els atacs de París |publisher=Catalunya Religió |date=20 January 2015 |access-date= |lang=es}} Members of different religions participated in the event, including Pilar Rahola, a Catalan journalist.{{cite web |url=http://israelacatalunya.blogspot.com/2015/01/la-comunitat-jueva-catalana-plora-els.html |title=La comunitat jueva catalana plora els morts de París |date=18 January 2015 |publisher=Il Israel a Catalunya |access-date= |lang=es}}

See also

{{Stack|{{portal|Judaism|Spain}}}}

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