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Article: Estonia's Jewish community starts building new synagogue in Tallinn
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- January 20, 2005
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JARI TANNER, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
01-20-2005
Dateline: TALLINN, Estonia
Estonia's Jewish community broke ground Thursday on a new synagogue in the Baltic state, which will replace the house of worship destroyed by bombing in World War II.
"It will be a synagogue for all Jews living in Estonia," Cilja Laud, a spokeswoman for Jewish Community of Estonia, told the AP, adding the 200-seat synagogue with a pillar-covered entrance is being built next to the Estonian Jewish Community center and school.
Besides hosting worship services, the synagogue will also prepare and distribute kosher foods.
Tallinn's last synagogue was built in 1882, but was destroyed in 1944 as Nazis fled the ...