Or Thora Synagogue (Tunis)

The Or-Thora Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת אור תורה; Arabic: كنيس أور تورا بتونس), also erroneously called Or-Torah Synagogue, is a former Jewish congregation and synagogue, that is located in the old city of Hara, in Tunis, Tunisia.

[1] Habib Bourguiba, who served as the President of Tunisia from 1957 to 1987, visited the synagogue on February 12, 1957.

[1] After the departure of most of the Tunisian Jews for Israel and France following the anti-Jewish riots during the Six-Day War in 1967,[2] which included the burning of the Torah Scrolls at the synagogue,[3] religious services stopped being offered at the synagogue.

ongoing discussions among the Tunisian Jewish community and the residents of the Hafsia to turn the Or-Thora Synagogue into a museum of the Hara,[6][7] with a project led by Leila Ben Gacem[8] and a team of architects from the NGO Association de sauvegarde de la médina de Tunis, with the aim to save the synagogue from total degradation.

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Door of the former synagogue.