Dictionary definition: synagogue

synagogue. The Jews may have introduced synagogues as regular meeting places for worship during the Babylonian exile (6th cent. BC), when they could no longer take part in the Temple worship at Jerusalem, but the first clear evidence of synagogue building comes from Egypt in the Hellenistic period. The worship of the synagogue has always been non-sacrificial; it consists ...

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