page_title: Kadoorie Synagogue
section_title: Present
hierarchical_section_title: Kadoorie Synagogue / Present
caption_attribution_description: Português: Biblioteca Kadoorie
context_page_description: The Kadoorie Mekor Haim Synagogue is a synagogue of the Jewish community of Porto, situated in the civil parish of Lordelo do Ouro e Massarelos, the municipality of Porto, in the Portuguese northern district of Porto. Constructed along the Rua Guerra Junqueiro beginning in 1929 and inaugurated in 1938, it is the largest synagogue in the Iberian Peninsula.
context_section_description: According to the official blog of the community, it includes about 400 Jews originally from more than thirty countries and gathers all standards and degrees of observance of Judaism.
  In recent years, the members of the community have connected the organization with the rest of the Jewish world, written the Community's rules, restored the synagogue building, organized departments and created the necessary conditions for Jewish life to flourish again in Oporto.
  The organisation has a beit din, two official rabbis, and structures for kashrut. It offers courses to schoolteachers to combat anti-Semitism, and has a museum, a cinema, films about its history, and cooperation protocols with the Portuguese state, the Israeli Embassy to Portugal, B'nai B'rith International, the Anti-Defamation League, Keren Hayesod, and Chabad Lubavitch, as well as with the Oporto Diocese and Oporto's Muslim community.
caption: Kadoorie Library
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