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Versailles Synagogue

Versailles, Italy

Versailles Synagogue

The Versailles Synagogue (French: Synagogue de Versailles) is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 10, rue Albert Joly in Versailles in the Yvelines department, in the Île-de-France region of France. Built between 1884 and 1886 by the architect Alfred-Philibert Aldrophe, it was inaugurate

d in 1886, and is one of the oldest purpose-built synagogues in the Île-de-France region. Mrs Furtado Heine provided significant financial support to the establishment of the synagogue. The synagogue was listed as a monument historique on 27 January 2010. Having historically worshipped in the Ashkenazi rite, the congregation now worships in the Sephardic rite.

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