The Historian · Femke · Amsterdam
Portuguese Synagogue
No electricity, ever. Over a thousand candles for the evening service. This building is why Amsterdam called itself the Jerusalem of the West.
The 1675 Sephardic synagogue, still lit only by candles, built by Jews who fled the Iberian Inquisition and found a city that let them worship openly.
— Femke, The Historian
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