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Ben Ezra Synagogue

Ben Ezra Synagogue
 
Ben Ezra Synagogue is a synagogue synagogues in Egypt. It is located in the area of Fustat ( district of ancient Egypt ). And is one of the largest and most important , especially with the Egyptian government took care to him and restored , and converted to a tourist attraction effect . Due to contain the precious library of Jewish books and periodicals chronicling the existence of the Jewish community in Egypt.
The temple foundation was a church called " Church Achammaaan " has sold the Orthodox Church of the Jewish community , when passed distress financial result of increased taxes imposed on it at the time, and called the temple of that name relative to the "" Ezra the scribe " one evacuated inks Jews, and is sometimes called the Temple of the Palestinians, or Temple Shawwam . researchers knew and modern Jewish the " Genizah Temple " relative to a famous Genizah documents in which they were found in 1890.


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The temple is the oldest temples of Cairo. And tells the stories of Judaism that Moses had chosen the subject of prayer next to the Nile in what was known then Fustat , but according to the Mqrizi the temple was originally a Christian church , and sold at some of the Jews, and build it back to the news narrated from the Church of the name of Saint Michael in the same spot , no trace of her day, and sources indicate to Onhaa sold in 882 AD to the Jews in order to collect the amount of money, had been imposed by Ahmed Ibn Tulun on Christians . The payment of the "Abraham Ben Ezra , " and then the amount of 20,000 dinars. And historian of the temple , rebuilt again, and condition of the building deteriorated so much that I decided sect completely torn down and rebuilt again in 1890. And conditions of worsened again , that the Egyptian government renewed partnership with the Canadian Centre for Architecture in 1991 , and turned into a tourist attraction known,

Religious significance
Tells the Jews that this spot is a place Moses had used to pray after the plague that struck the country in accordance with the well-known story . Troy and other stories that the Prophet Elijah ( Eliyahu ) had demonstrated the worshipers there more than once , and that the temple contains the remains of the prophet Jeremiah , as well as the story of the manuscript Altnej old Aerovh now folder Aleppo (Aleppo Codex) by Almasorta Moshe Ben Asher , and his son Aharon Ben- Asher from a wide Karaites Jews and has Ptnqatha to pronounce true without Thrpf and somehow transferred to the Jewish community in Aleppo Syria , and said that this is the version that has been set and revise copy the current Altnej .
Have used the temple throughout history the majority of Jewish communities in Egypt , use it the Iraqi Jews , they are Jews, Karaites and Jews Ahamyin , and Ashkenazi and Sephardic , and ended up a temple of the Jews Rabanyen after the transfer of a Jewish Karaites to compelling goats in the Fatimid era and who speak Arabic as their origin.


Genizah
Genizah is a collection of paper and documents that may not destruction or neglected according to the Jewish religion, and especially if it included the name of God between the folds , but are stored in the isolated room in the synagogue or temple for generations, and is derived from the word word funeral in Arabic, no burial or buried . Because it must after all for the collection of these documents are buried in cemeteries . And may be found in this temple on a set of documents is very scarce and that can , including the history of the living conditions of the Jews for centuries , and the conditions of their community as a whole. And divided to two sources : the documentary sources , and literary sources .

Architecture
Temple -storey affair a large number of temples and forums Jewish , I used the worshipers of men and Aiina prayer ladies, the temple receives Jerusalem , and contains two rows of marble columns with crowns magnificent , and is divided into three sections, the oldest is the East, which is topped by a ( rattle ) or slot lighting and ventilation in the middle of the platform and around preaching seats worshipers , the structure on the east side , and contains the ark of the Covenant and the Torah scrolls . And there is still a big demand to visit the temple of tourists the world , regardless of their religions and their attitudes , because of its aesthetic value , and historical. 

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