Heritage Sites

The best-known surviving Jewish house of worship in Baghdad and a key physical reminder of the city’s historic Jewish community.

A major historic gathering place and religious center of the Baghdadi Jewish community.

The last Jewish school in Baghdad; it remained active into the later twentieth century.

One of the important Jewish educational institutions associated with modern Jewish life in Baghdad.

A Baghdad school associated with the Alliance Israélite Universelle educational network.

A documented Jewish educational site in Baghdad connected to the city’s communal institutions.

A historic Jewish school documented as part of Baghdad’s communal and educational landscape.

A Jewish educational institution for girls associated with vocational and community education.

A major surviving Jewish cemetery in Baghdad preserving family and communal memory.

A traditional Jewish shrine in Baghdad associated with Joshua/Jeshua the High Priest.

A site linked in tradition and memory to the Exilarchs, leaders of Babylonian Jewry.

One of Iraq’s most important shared sacred sites, traditionally associated with the biblical prophet Ezekiel.

A long-standing Jewish and Muslim pilgrimage site on the Tigris associated with Ezra the Scribe.

The historic shrine in Alqosh traditionally associated with the prophet Nahum.

The historic Mosul quarter where Jewish families, craftsmen, merchants and communal institutions were concentrated.

A synagogue documented in Mosul’s old Jewish quarter, adjacent to the Midrash synagogue.

One of the synagogues historically documented in Mosul’s Jewish quarter.

A documented former burial ground associated with Mosul’s Jewish community.

A locally identified former site associated with the Tomb of Daniel and a synagogue.

A site associated with the prophet Jonah and revered across religious traditions; the historic shrine was destroyed in 2014.

A synagogue in the Ashar area of Basra, built by the Tweig family in the twentieth century.

A Basra school connected to the Alliance Israélite Universelle network and the city’s Jewish educational life.

The documented Jewish cemetery of Basra.

A synagogue associated with the historic Jewish community of Akre in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Zakho retains memory of a substantial Jewish community, a Jewish neighborhood and historic synagogues.

A documented cemetery associated with the historic Jewish community of Erbil; its precise location is uncertain.

A site associated with Asenath Barzani, the renowned seventeenth-century Kurdish Jewish scholar.

A historic synagogue/tomb complex in Amediye documented in photographs from the 1940s.

A Jewish heritage site in the Dohuk region associated with the prophet Ovadiah in local tradition.

A village near Dohuk remembered as an entirely Jewish settlement organized around its synagogue.

The historic area of Sulaymaniyah remembered locally as the city’s former Jewish quarter.

A cemetery associated with the historic Jewish community of Sulaymaniyah.

A documented house associated with the former Jewish community of Sulaymaniyah.

The citadel preserves layers of religious and communal history, including traditions of an earlier Jewish sacred site.

A documented synagogue associated with Zakho’s historic Jewish community, one of the most important Jewish centers of Iraqi Kurdistan.

A documented former Jewish community in Iraqi Kurdistan with surviving memory of communal life and burial heritage.

The documented Jewish cemetery serving the former Jewish community of Koi Sanjaq in Iraqi Kurdistan.

A former Jewish settlement in Iraqi Kurdistan preserved through historical and community documentation.

A documented educational site connected to the former Jewish community of Rawanduz.

A former Jewish settlement in Iraqi Kurdistan associated with communal prayer, burial and village life.

A documented former Jewish community in the Kurdish region of Iraq.

A Jewish school documented in Qalat Saleh, preserving evidence of Jewish educational life beyond Iraq’s largest cities.

A cemetery associated with the former Jewish community of Sharanesh in Iraqi Kurdistan.

A synagogue site documented in connection with the historic Jewish presence in Erbil and its citadel area.

A documented former Jewish community in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

A documented synagogue associated with the historic Jewish community of Samawah in southern Iraq.

A Baghdad girls’ school associated with the Alliance Israélite Universelle educational network.

The historic neighborhood associated with Jewish families and community life in Koi Sanjaq.

A communal sports and recreation institution bearing the Daniel family name and connected to Baghdad’s Jewish civic life.

A documented Jewish burial ground associated with the former Jewish community of Dohuk.