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Knesset Eliyahoo, the Glossary

The Knesset Eliyahoo, also Knesset Eliyahu, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located in downtown Mumbai, India.^[1]

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1884 establishments in India
Orthodox Judaism in India
Sephardi Jewish culture in India
Synagogues completed in 1884
Synagogues in Mumbai

Abha Narain Lambah

Abha Narain Lambah (born 1970) is an Indian conservation architect whose eponymous architectural practice has restored several of India's UNESCO World Heritage Sites like the Ajanta Caves, Golconda Fort and Mahabodhi Temple, and Mumbai's Victorian buildings like the Crawford Market, Royal Opera House, Asiatic Society of Mumbai Town Hall and Knesset Eliyahoo Synagogue.

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Albert Sassoon

Sir Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, 1st Baronet, (25 July 181824 October 1896) was a Baghdad-born businessman and philanthropist.

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Aleppo

Aleppo (ﺣَﻠَﺐ, ALA-LC) is a city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous governorate of Syria.

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against, Jews.

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Baghdad

Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.

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Baghdadi Jews

Baghdadi Jews or Iraqi Jews are historic terms for the former communities of Jewish migrants and their descendants from Baghdad and elsewhere in the Middle East.

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Basra

Basra (al-Baṣrah) is a city in southern Iraq.

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Bene Israel

The Bene Israel, also referred to as the "Shanivar Teli" or "Native Jew" caste, are a community of Jews in India.

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Bukhara

Bukhara (Uzbek; بخارا) is the seventh-largest city in Uzbekistan by population, with 280,187 residents.

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Byculla

Byculla (ISO: Bhāykhaḷā; pronunciation: bʱaːjkʰəɭaː) is an area of South Mumbai.

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Chabad

Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch, is a branch of Orthodox Judaism, originating from Eastern Europe.

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Colaba

Colaba (or ISO: Kolābā) is a part of the city of Mumbai, India.

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David Sassoon (treasurer)

David Sassoon (October 1792 – 7 November 1864) was the treasurer of Baghdad between 1817 and 1829.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.

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Elias David Sassoon

Elias David Sassoon (27 March 1820 – 21 March 1880), an Indian merchant and banker born in Baghdad, was the second son of David Sassoon, an Iraqi-Indian philanthropist Jewish businessman involved in trade in India and the Far East, with branches at Calcutta, Shanghai, Canton, and Hong Kong; and his business, which included a monopoly of the opium-trade, extended as far as Yokohama, Nagasaki, and other cities in Japan.

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Farhud

(translit) was the pogrom or the "violent dispossession" that was carried out against the Jewish population of Baghdad, Iraq, on 1–2 June 1941, immediately following the British victory in the Anglo-Iraqi War.

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Fort (Mumbai precinct)

Fort is a business and art district in the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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Galilee

Galilee (hagGālīl; Galilaea; al-jalīl) is a region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon.

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Gavriel Holtzberg

Gavriel Noach Holtzberg (גבריאל נח הולצברג; June 9, 1979 – November 26, 2008 (1st of Kislev, 5769) was an Israeli American Orthodox rabbi and the Chabad emissary to Mumbai, India, where he and his wife Rivka ran the Mumbai Chabad House. He was also a religious leader and community builder for the local Jewish Indian community, and led the Friday-night Shabbat services at the Knesset Eliyahoo synagogue.

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Hindus

Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.

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India Post

India Post is an Indian government-operated postal system in India, and is the trade name of the Department of Post under the Ministry of Communications.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Israelites

The Israelites were a group of Semitic-speaking tribes in the ancient Near East who, during the Iron Age, inhabited a part of Canaan.

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Jainism

Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Kala Ghoda

Kala Ghoda (IPA:Kāḷā Ghōḍā) is a crescent-shaped art district/neighborhood in Mumbai, India.

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Konkan

The Konkan is a stretch of land by the western coast of India, bound by the river Daman Ganga at Damaon in the north, to Anjediva Island next to Karwar town in the south; with the Arabian Sea to the west and the Deccan plateau to the east.

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Magen David Synagogue (Byculla)

Magen David Synagogue is an Orthodox Sephardi synagogue located in Byculla, India. Knesset Eliyahoo and Magen David Synagogue (Byculla) are Orthodox Judaism in India, Orthodox synagogues, Sephardi Jewish culture in India, Sephardi synagogues and synagogues in Mumbai.

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Maharashtra

Maharashtra (ISO: Mahārāṣṭra) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau.

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Middle East

The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.

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Mikveh

A mikveh or mikvah (miqva'ot, mikvoth, mikvot, or (Yiddish) mikves, lit., "a collection") is a bath used for ritual immersion in Judaism to achieve ritual purity.

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Mumbai

Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Muslims

Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.

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Nariman House

The Nariman House, designated as a Chabad house (בית חב"ד Beit Chabad), is a five-storey landmark in the Colaba area of South Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Knesset Eliyahoo and Nariman House are Orthodox Judaism in India and synagogues in Mumbai.

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Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is the collective term for the traditionalist branches of contemporary Judaism.

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Rosh Hashanah

Rosh HaShanah (רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה,, literally "head of the year") is the New Year in Judaism.

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Sassoon baronets

Two Sassoon baronetcies were created, in 1890 and 1909 respectively, for members of the Anglo-Indo-Iraqi and Indo-Iraqi branches of the Sassoon family of Baghdadi Jewish descent.

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Sephardic Jews

Sephardic Jews (Djudíos Sefardíes), also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).

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Sephardic law and customs

Sephardic law and customs are the law and customs of Judaism which are practiced by Sephardim or Sephardic Jews ("Jews of Spain"); the descendants of the historic Jewish community of the Iberian Peninsula, what is now Spain and Portugal.

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Sifrei Kodesh

Sifrei Kodesh (Holy books), commonly referred to as sefarim (books), or in its singular form, sefer, are books of Jewish religious literature and are viewed by religious Jews as sacred.

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Synagogue

A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans.

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Synagogues in India

There are many synagogues in the Indian subcontinent, although many no longer function as such and today vary in their levels of preservation.

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Taj Mahal Palace Hotel

The Taj Mahal Palace is a heritage, five-star, luxury hotel in the Colaba area of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, situated next to the Gateway of India.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Oberoi Group

The Oberoi Group is a luxury hotel group with its head office in New Delhi, India.

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A Torah scroll (סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה,, lit. "Book of Torah"; plural: סִפְרֵי תוֹרָה) is a handwritten copy of the Torah, meaning the five books of Moses (the first books of the Hebrew Bible).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knesset_Eliyahoo

Also known as Keneseth Eliyahoo, Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue, Kenneth Eliyahoo, Kenneth Eliyahoo Synagogue, Knesset Eliyahu Synagogue, Knesseth Eliyahoo Synagogue.

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Knesset Eliyahoo, the Glossary

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See also

1884 establishments in India

Orthodox Judaism in India

Sephardi Jewish culture in India

Synagogues completed in 1884

Synagogues in Mumbai

References