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Curaçao synagogue

Willemstad, Italy

Curaçao synagogue

The Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת מקווה ישראל-עמנואל, lit. 'Hope of Israel-Emanuel Synagogue'), is a Reconstructionist Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at Hanchi di Snoa 29, Punda, in the city of Willemstad, Curaçao, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlan

ds in southern Caribbean Sea. The congregation was established in 1651 and the synagogue was completed in 1732, making it the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas. Commonly known as the Snoa (short for esnoga, an old Portuguese and Judaeo-Spanish word for synagogue), it is a major tourist attraction in Curaçao, and was visited by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and her family in 1992.

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