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A synagogue or synagog, 'Beit Kneset'—"house of gathering" in Hebrew, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews or Samaritans.
Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem, Israel
Eldridge Street Synagogue in New York City, United States
Princes Road Synagogue in Liverpool, England
Exterior of Great Synagogue of Marseille in Marseille, France
Samaritans
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Samaritans, often preferring to be called Israelite Samaritans, are an ethnoreligious group originating from the Hebrews and Israelites of the ancient Near East. They are indigenous to Samaria, a hist
Synagogue
…synagog, 'Beit Kneset'—"house of gathering" in Hebrew, also called a shul (meaning school in Yiddish) or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews or Samaritans. It serves as a house of prayer. It includes a main sanctuary with the Torah ark where the Torah scrolls are kept (called an Holy Closet aron qodesh…
Samaritans marking Passover on Mount Gerizim, near modern Nablus and ancient Shechem, 2006
Foreigners eaten by lions in Samaria, illustration by Gustave Doré from the 1866 La Sainte Bible, The Holy Bible
Ruins of the Hellenistic-era Samaritan settlement on Mount Gerizim, built next to the Samaritan Temple and destroyed c. 110 BCE
Central panel of the mosaic floor from the 4th-century El-Khirbe synagogue, now displayed in the Good Samaritan Museum