Syria GateThe Menarsha Synagogue (Arabic: كنيس المنشارة; Hebrew: בית כנסת אלמנשה), also known as the Great Synagogue of Damascus, is a historic synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Damascus, in Syria. Completed in the 19th century, the synagogue was the target of a terrorist attack in 1949.
History
The building was partially destroyed and has not been used as a synagogue since the anti-Jewish pogroms in the 1940s.