Nachmanides
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Moses ben Nachman, commonly known as Nachmanides, and also referred to by the acronym Ramban and by the contemporary nickname Bonastruc ça Porta, was a leading medieval Jewish scholar, Spanish rabbi,
21st-century artistic depiction of Nachmanides in Acre
Nachmanides's letter to his son displayed on the Ramban synagogue in Jerusalem
A street in Jerusalem bears his name
Guide for the Perplexed by Maimonides
Ramban Synagogue
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The Ramban Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Nachmanides
…persecution in Muslim lands, he made aliyah to Jerusalem. There he established a synagogue in the Old City that exists until the present day, known as the Ramban Synagogue. Nachmanides then settled at Acre, where he was very active in spreading Jewish learning, which was at that time very much neglected in the Holy Land…
The synagogue interior in 2006
Shown in the Casale Pilgrim (16th-century)