Synagogues in this atlas's Religious and Sacred Buildings subcategory built for Jewish worship and community life, most of this subcategory's own membership in this group drawn from a single cluster of historic European and American synagogues this atlas has individually catalogued. Belongs here: any building this atlas records as a synagogue, whatever its congregation, rite or architectural style, and whatever its present use as an active house of worship, a museum or a heritage site. Does not belong here: a building serving any other world religion, gathered under this subcategory's other tradition groups, even one built on a site with a shared or contested religious history.
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Era of Emergence Origin RegionEastern Mediterranean (Jewish diaspora) 1 All Jewish Synagogues
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1. Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia, Synagogue, history section, era
The earliest archaeological evidence for the existence of synagogues is stone dedication inscriptions from the third century BCE prove that proseukhai existed by that date.
Wikipedia, Synagogue, diaspora section, region
probably after the Babylonian Exile of Judaea in 586 BCE, several centuries before their introduction to the Land of Israel
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