The Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת מקווה ישראל-עמנואל, lit.

Commonly known as the Snoa (short for esnoga, an old Portuguese and Judaeo-Spanish word for synagogue), it is a major tourist attraction in Curaçao, and was visited by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and her family in 1992.

[1] The congregation, Mikvé Israel, dates from the 1650s and consisted of Spanish and Portuguese Jews from the Netherlands and Brazil.

[2] One visitor to the synagogue observed, upon entering through a quiet courtyard, viewing the azure stained glass windows and walking across a sand covered floor toward the carved mahogany Holy Ark that the sand floors remind congregants "...of how its Jewish ancestors on the Iberian peninsula covered the floors of their makeshift prayer houses so that their footsteps would be muffled and the suspicion of potential denouncers would not be aroused.

An even older synagogue existed at Jodensavanne, Suriname, Beracha ve Shalom ("Blessings and Peace"), built between 1665 and 1671.