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Deir el Qamar Synagogue

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Location
  
Chouf, Lebanon

Ecclesiastical or organizational status
  
open

Opened
  
1638

Affiliation
  
Orthodox Judaism

Completed
  
1638

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The Deir el Qamar Synagogue, in Deir el Qamar, a village in south-central Lebanon, is the oldest synagogue in Mount Lebanon. The synagogue was built in the 17th century, during the Ottoman era in Lebanon, to serve the local Jewish population, some of whom were part of the immediate entourage of Fakhr-al-Din II. The building is in good condition.

As of 2016, the Synagogue is in excellent condition; yet, in the meantime, the synagogue has been shut to the public for security reasons and has been entrusted to the French cultural center by Lebanon's Direction Générale des Antiquités (General Directorate of Antiquities).

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Deir el Qamar Synagogue Wikipedia