The renovated Kos Synagogue will be inaugurated on the Greek island by the Municipality of Kos, the Jewish Central Council of Greece (KISE), the Civic Society of Hippocrates and the Administrative Committee of the Jewish Community of Rhodes on Sunday, July 23. , reports ANA.
“Seventy-eight years after the deportation of the island’s Jews by the Nazis in July 1944 and their extermination at Auschwitz, the historic Kal Shalom is once again functioning as a synagogue and opening its doors to the local community and to thousands of visitors all over the world,” notes a press release on KISE’s website.
The renovation project was supervised by architect Elias Messinas and carried out with the help of the city of Kos, KISE and the Hippocratic Urban Society following the signing of a memorandum on the use of the synagogue and the improving its role in the life of the island as a religious place as well as a place of memory, knowledge and culture.
The events planned around the inauguration will begin with a visit to the Jewish cemetery, followed by an event at the synagogue at 12:30 p.m. which will include the religious reopening and prayers led by the Rabbi of Athens Gabriel Negrin, messages of welcome by officials and the presentation of the project of the architect Elias Messinas. The event will end with a recital by soprano Mariangela Chatzistamatiou, who will sing Jewish songs from the Romaniote and Sephardic tradition accompanied by the group Pellegrinaggio al Levante.
On Sunday afternoon (6:30 p.m.), there will be a presentation at the Synagogue of two books from Messina: “Kal Shalom: The Synagogue of Kos” (Ippokratis Publishing, Kos 2023), and “To Synagoi” (Infognomon Publishing, Athens 2023 ). This latest book focuses on people from across Greece who helped preserve the role and history of synagogues in Greece and includes both oral and written history spanning three decades.
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