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Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue

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Musmeah Yeshua synagogue altar
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Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue (Hebrew: בית כנסת מצמיח ישועה) is the last remaining Jewish house of worship in Downtown Yangon and Burma's only synagogue. The synagogue stands between Indian paint shops and Muslim traders on a small street near the city centre. A plaque at the entrance of the building states that the present stone building, which was built between 1893 – 1896, replaced an earlier, smaller wooden structure that was erected in 1854. It is one of 188 sites on the Yangon City Development Council’s list of Heritage Buildings. It serves the few remaining Jews of the country, mostly descendants of Baghdadi Jews from Iraq.

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Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue
26th Street, Yangon Pabedan (Yangon West)

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26th Street 85
23467 Yangon, Pabedan (Yangon West)
Yangon, Myanmar
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