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The Mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, and Jorge Eiroa degree in history have exhibited at the stand of Paradores tourism promoters and specialized media the importance of the site in the Jewish quarter of Lorca Castle and explained its value along with the Synagogue, not only in Spain that has been reused by other religions.
The event was also the Director of this House, Alarcó Angeles.
The finding of the synagogue in the Jewish quarter of Lorca is exceptional for its state of preservation and because he offered an important archaeological information to learn more about this type of building in the fifteenth century and has recreated the missing wood.
The synagogue of Lorca presents rectangular with two entrances open to a courtyard, one of which allows access to a lobby which houses a fountain for ablutions prior to prayer, and connects to a large meeting room surrounded by banks attached to the walls, where the remains of the holy ark (aron ha-qodesh) and reading platform (bimah), and the space between them (Via Sacra).
A women's gallery (matroneum) arranged up was accessed by a third entrada.También noteworthy is the finding of multiple glass fragments that have allowed reconstructing twenty lamps with which the building was lit.
The Synagogue is part of Lorca Jewry, XV century, located under the fortified walls of the castle.
Archaeological excavations have allowed verifying a wide synagogue and eleven houses that open to small little squares and narrow streets and ramparts.
The houses are of various sizes, adapted to the slope, and often have small patios, bedrooms sobreelevadas, stays with work benches against the walls, Tinajeros, cupboards, cabinets, kitchen and, exceptionally, a baño.Documentos the second half of the fifteenth century preserved in different files, allow us to know some of the people who inhabited this Jewry and played trades with trade and livestock, as well as other activities of a border town as tax collection and rescue of captives.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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