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Chief Rabbi opens first purpose-built synagogue in Arab world in 100 years

The Abrahamic Family House is a complex serving as a ‘powerful platform for inspiring and nurturing understanding and acceptance between people of goodwill’

February 17, 2023 14:06
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The first purpose-built synagogue in the Arab world in nearly a century was officially inaugurated on Thursday, in a ceremony attended by the UK’s Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis.

The Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi is a religious complex consisting of a mosque, a church, and a synagogue, and will, according to its website, “serve as a community for inter-religious dialogue and exchange, nurturing the values of peaceful co-existence and acceptance among different beliefs, nationalities and cultures.”

The complex’s synagogue, the Moses Ben Maimon Synagogue will hold its first Shabbat service on Friday and will open to the public on March 1.

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