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Paradesi Synagogue

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Paradesi Synagogue
Paradesi Synagogue
Paradesi Synagogue
Paradesi Synagogue
Paradesi Synagogue
Paradesi Synagogue
Paradesi Synagogue
Paradesi Synagogue
Paradesi Synagogue
Paradesi Synagogue
Paradesi Synagogue
Paradesi Synagogue
Paradesi Synagogue
Paradesi Synagogue
Paradesi Synagogue
Phone:
271628

Address:
Jew Town Rd | Mattancherry, Kochi (Cochin), India

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 synagogue is located in the quarter of Old Cochin known as Jew Town, and is the only one of the seven synagogues in the area still in use. The complex has four buildings. It was built adjacent to the Mattancherry Palace temple on the land given to the Malabari Yehuden or Yehuden Mappila community by the Raja of Kochi, Rama Varma. The Mattancherry Palace temple and the Mattancherry synagogue share a common wall.
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