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Waterfall Synagogue, Akre

A synagogue tradition in Akre, a historic center of Kurdish Jewish life near Barzan and the mountain communities of northern Iraq.

Akre, DuhokHERITAGE RECORD
Waterfall Synagogue, Akre
Visual contextCity context: historic architecture in Akre. It provides visual context for the town’s Jewish synagogue tradition rather than claiming to show the synagogue itself.Levi Clancy / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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A synagogue tradition in Akre, a historic center of Kurdish Jewish life near Barzan and the mountain communities of northern Iraq.

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CATEGORYSynagogue
REGIONDuhok
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