Visual contextCity context: the Shatt al-Arab near Basra. The photograph situates the heritage record in Basra’s river landscape; it is not the exact site.Aziz1005 / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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A twentieth-century synagogue in Basra’s al-ʿAshar district, built by the Tweig family and associated with the city’s once substantial Jewish community.
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CATEGORYSynagogue
REGIONBasra
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