Beth El Synagogue (Shanghai)

The Beth El Synagogue was an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Shanghai, China.

[1] At that time, most were Sephardic Jews from Baghdad and Bombay.

[1] During the 1870s, the Baghdadi Jewish community used rented space for religious worship.

[1] It was located on Peking Road, a major thoroughfare in the English settlement.

[2] Jacob Elias and Edward Elias Sassoon built the Ohel Rachel Synagogue to replace Beth El Synagogue; and it opened in March 1920.