Kfar Bar'am synagogue
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Kfar Baram synagogue (Hebrew: כְּפַר בַּרְעָם), also Kafar Berem synagogue, is the ruins of two ancient Jewish synagogues at the site of Kafr Bir'im, a depopulated Palestinian village which in medieval times was the Jewish village of Kfar Bar'am. Today, it is located in Northern Israel, 3 kilometers from the Lebanese border.
Location | Northern District, Israel |
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Coordinates | 33.043611°N 35.414075°E / 33.043611; 35.414075 |
The façade of the 3rd-century synagogue faces south, towards Jerusalem, as the custom of most synagogues, and was replete with a covered portico containing six stone columns.[1]
It was first identified as a synagogue in modern times in 1852 – along with other similar remains in Galilee – by Edward Robinson in his Biblical Researches in Palestine.[2]