2-913-999 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Eupatoria - Jews' Synagogue and Schools, 1854. Yevpatoria is a city in Western Crimea on the Black Sea. It was the first port landed at by the allies during the Crimean War. 'Unpretending as the Synagogue appears, its interior indicates that the Jews must be a comparatively wealthy body here. Within the porch is a paved passuge, on one side planted with trees, leading to a tolerably large square...On the left side of this square is a Synagogue (the principal one), on the right a smaller one. Proceeding from this square you enter a large quadrangle paved with marble. The walls were covered with inscriptions in the Hebrew language, which I understood to be memorials of their worthies...They took great pride in showing us a very beautiful manuscript on vellum of the Old Testament Scriptures, and explained to us that it was of great antiquity'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.