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Romaniote Memories : A Jewish Journey from Ioannina, Greece to Manhattan: Photographs by Vincent Giordano
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Romaniote Jews
Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue
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Inside the small courtyard there is a small fountain, a wellhead, and a pergola constructed against the wall. Similar pergolas are often found in other Romaniote synagogues in Greece, and it would have been used as a communal sukkah during the Feast of Tabernacles.
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Exterior of Ioannina Synagogue
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Entrance Gate
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The Old Synagogue of Ioannina, called Kehak Kadosh Yashan, is located just inside the kastro at 16 Justinian Street, on the edge of the former old Jewish quarter. The standing building is dated to the 1820s; while the precinct the wall and gate were built in the late 19th century. Today’s structure may have replaced an 17th-century synagogue on the site.
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Courtyard and Pergola
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Inside the small courtyard there is a small fountain, a wellhead, and a pergola constructed against the wall. Similar pergolas are often found in other Romaniote synagogues in Greece, and it would have been used as a communal sukkah during the Feast of Tabernacles.
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Ablution Fountain
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To the immediate left of the entrance gate is a fountain that always for ritual handwashing by arriving worshippers. Ablutions are customary before entering a traditional synagogue, and courtyard fountains and other water sources are known from ancient and medieval synagogues, too.
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View of Courtyard Wall and Main Gate
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Looking back from the sukkah past the wellhead and to the main gate, one sees that the courtyard is lined with stone benches to facilitate outdoor gatherings.
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Courtyard and Main Entrance
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This view of the courtyard emphasizes its intimate scale that provides a comfortable space for the congregation gather before and after services. An inscribed tablet above the door provides the date of construction as 1829.
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West Entrance
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This beautiful black and white photo of the synagogue courtyard emphasizes the juxtaposition of simple shapes of the building exterior and the courtyard space. Note the contrast between the tablet-shaped pair of round-headed arches of the apse-like projection of the interior bimah (reader’s platform) and the triangular pediment of the entrance porch.
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Men's Entrance
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Today, the main entrance for men to the prayer hall is from the courtyard, in the west wall of the synagogue. It through a delicate classically inspired gable front porch made of wood with a metal roof. The six-point star (Magen David) is the only Jewish symbol on the building exterior. An original earlier is a door on the building’s northeast corner.
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Sukkah
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The courtyard contains a pergola to one side, built against the precinct wall. This has an open roof and built in benches on three sides. It would be augmented every autumn in accordance with the rules regulating the construction of a sukkah – the outdoor booth when Jews dine during the Week-long feat of Tabernacles.
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Original Entrance for Men
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The original entrance for men was through this arched doorway at the northeast corner of the building.
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Stairs to Women's Section, North Wall
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The original women’s section of the synagogue is inside in an upper gallery along the north wall. It is entered from an external staircase, just around the corner from the original entrance for men. In traditional synagogues and in all Romaniote synagogues, men and women are seated separately.
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Synagogue Exterior, Southeast Corner
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As seen in this view of the southwest corner, the exterior of the synagogue is quite austere, but marked with large windows on all four sides. Today the stone walls are mostly exposed though they were probably been plastered and whitewashed at different times in the building’s history.
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Exterior with Protrusion of Ark Niche
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The large marble ehal (Ark) built against the interior east wall opened into recess deeper than the wall thickness, which is expressed architecturally on the exterior as an apse. It is in this space that the sacred Torah scrolls are stored.
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Inside the small courtyard there is a small fountain, a wellhead, and a pergola constructed against the wall. Similar pergolas are found in other Romaniote synagogues in Greece, and would have been used as a communal sukkah during the Feast of Tabernacles.
