Córdoba Synagogue
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The Córdoba Synagogue is a historic former Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 20 Calle de los Judíos in the Jewish Quarter of Córdoba, Andalusia. Completed in 1315, with its Mudéjar design a
West wall of the Synagogue of Córdoba
The courtyard of Córdoba Synagogue.
View of Córdoba Synagogue entrance hall, from the prayer hall
The women's section on the second floor of Córdoba Synagogue. (There was originally latticework acting as a screen in the bottom half of the three arches).
Maimonides
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Moses ben Maimon, commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam, was a Sephardic Jewish rabbi who is widely acknowledged as one of the most prolific and influential To
Córdoba Synagogue
…of restoration, including that of Felix Hernandez in 1929. In 1935, the Spanish authorities marked the eight-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Maimonides by changing the name of the square in which the synagogue is located to Tiberias Square, honoring the great native-born philosopher buried in Tiberias…
Posthumous engraving in Thesaurus Antiquitatum Sacrarum, from which all modern portraits of Maimonides are derived, c. 1744
Maimonides' house in Fez, Morocco, according to local tradition. It is now occupied by the Dar al-Magana.
Monument in Córdoba
Bas relief of Maimonides in the United States House of Representatives