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Beth Shalom Synagogue (Athens)

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The entrance to the Synagogue Beth Shalom in Athens on March 20, 2020
The entrance to the Synagogue Beth Shalom in Athens on March 20, 2020

Beth Shalom Synagogue (Hebrew: בית כנסת בית שלום) is the principal synagogue of Athens, Greece. It was built in 1935 of white Pentelic marble, the architecture is an austere Greek Revival style; the building was renovated in 1975. The synagogue is managed by Rabbi Gabriel Negrin, who was elected by the council of Athens’ Jewish community following the death of the long time leader Jacob Arar in 2014.

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Beth Shalom Synagogue (Athens)
Μελιδώνη, Athens Lower Petralona Suburb (3rd District of Athens)

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Συναγωγή Ισραηλίτικης Κοινότητας Αθηνών "ΜΠΕΘ ΣΑΛΟΜ"

Μελιδώνη 5
105 53 Athens, Lower Petralona Suburb (3rd District of Athens)
Attica, Greece
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The entrance to the Synagogue Beth Shalom in Athens on March 20, 2020
The entrance to the Synagogue Beth Shalom in Athens on March 20, 2020
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Temple of Aphrodite Urania
Temple of Aphrodite Urania

The Temple of Aphrodite Urania (Greek: Βωμός Αφροδίτης Ουρανίας, romanized: Vomós Afrodítis Ouranías) is a temple located north-west of the Ancient Agora of Athens, dedicated to the Greek goddess Aphrodite under her epithet Urania.The temple was built around the early 5th century BC. According to Pausanias, the sanctuary had a marble statue of the deity sculpted by the ancient Greek sculptor Phidias: Above the Kerameikos [in Athens] is a sanctuary of the Aphrodite Ourania (Heavenly); the first men to establish her cult were the Assyrians, after the Assyrians the Paphians of Kypros and the Phoinikians who live at Askalon in Palestine; the Phoinikians taught her worship to the people of Kythera. Among the Athenians the cult was established by Aegeus, who thought that he was childless (he had, in fact, no children at the time) and that his sisters had suffered their misfortune because of the wrath of Aphrodite Ourania (Heavenly). The statue still extant is of Parian marble and is the work of Pheidias. One of the Athenian parishes is that of the Athmoneis, who say that Porphyrion, an earlier king than Aktaios, founded their sanctuary of Ourania. But the traditions current among the Parishes often differ altogether from those of the city. If still in use by the 4th century, the temple would have been closed during the persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire. There are a few saved stones on the slope of the hill beside the train tracks and near the temple of her husband Hephaestus.