Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue

Kahal Zur Israel situated in Recife, Brazil, was a Jewish gathering in Brazil. It was set up by Spanish/Portuguese Jews that had taken shelter in the Netherlands escaping constrained transformation and were joined by New Christians, who perhaps manufactured the structure and were at that point living in the province. The building is presently utilized as an exhibition hall; no Jews have been referred to utilize it as a synagogue over the most recent 400 years. A Torah and Bima have been currently amended to make a historical center. The first synagogue building made due until the mid twentieth century, when it was torn down.

The site has been affirmed by an archeological uncovering. In 2001 the choice was made to make a Jewish historical center in the two-story house with two shops situated on the primary floor at that point remaining on the site of the old synagogue. The gallery, intended to take after synagogues worked in the seventeenth and eighteenth hundreds of years by Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal, opened in 2001. Today, there are four synagogues in Recife. Numerous Jews commend their weddings and Bnei Mitzvot festivities in the Kahal Zur Israel in light of its imagery as an association with their long history in this nation. The synagogue is likewise at the focal point of a more extensive social renaissance.