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Dura-Europos synagogue

בית הכנסת בדורה אירופוס he

An ancient synagogue uncovered at Dura-Europos, Syria, in 1932; the last phase of construction was dated by an Aramaic inscription to 244 AD, making it one of the oldest synagogues in the world

  • Dated c. 150 CE – 256 CE
  • Also called Synagogue, Dura-Europos

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Site history & evidence

What is documented here

Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.

Evidence On record What it shows
Site date Dated c. 150 CE – 256 CE On the timeline A date for the site as recorded — not the start of worship, and not a floor on the tradition here.
Location Recorded to the site On the atlas A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent.
Dated activity None recorded A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Dura-Europos synagogue, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity.

Nearby

Places nearby

The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.

What this means

Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.

Computed See them together on the atlas

Connections

How Dura-Europos synagogue connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Place 1

What this means

Where something is, or is documented. A location is not by itself evidence of activity.

Does not imply that the site as a whole was a place of worship · that its parts were in use at the same time · that these are all the places of worship it held

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Recorded events and days 2

What this means

Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began.

Does not imply that these are all the events in its history · that Wikidata ranks the events by importance

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

5 statements on this record

  • 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
  • 3 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

User:KetefHinnomFan · CC0

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