The Zarzis Synagogue (Arabic: كنيس جرجيس; Hebrew: בית הכנסת משכן יעקב, romanized: Beit HaKnesset Mishkan Ya’akov, lit.

The synagogue was completed in 1905, when the Jewish community of Zarzis numbered approximately 1,000.

[1] An arson attack in 1982, following Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon, left the synagogue and Torah scrolls totally destroyed.

[2] The lavishly decorated synagogue leads into an open-air courtyard which has adjoining rooms which serve as the talmud torah.

As of 2007[update], Rabbi Eliyahu Sofer was the head of the community.