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The Rouyn-Noranda Synagogue is a synagogue located in the city of Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada. It was built in 1948 as the Beit Knesset Israel in Hebrew or Kneseth Israel Congregation in English by the Rouyn-Noranda Hebrew Congregation. A first wooden synagogue was built in 1932 before the same place. It was closed as a place of Jewish worship in 1972.
History of the Jews in Rouyn-Noranda
The first Jew to live in Rouyn-Noranda was Louis Scott, who stood on the edge of Osisko Lake. However, Mr. and Mrs. D. Caplan are actually the first to be cited at the opening of the second synagogue in 1949.
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