GUIDE TO MAJOR SITES OF JEWISH INTEREST IN GREECE
ATHENS
Sephardic: Synagogue - 5 Melidoni Str.
Romaniote Synagogue - 8 Melidoni Str. (open primarily on High Holidays).
Central Board of Jewish Communities In Greece (KIS) - 2 Sourmeli Sir. Tel. 88 39 951.
Jewish Community Headquarters - 8 Melidoni Str. Tel. 325 2823.
Jewish Community Center-Sina and Vissarionos Streets. Tel. 3637092.
Jewish Museum of Greece - 36 Amalias Ave. 3rd Floor. Tel. 225582.
Ancient Synagogue - in the heart of the ancient Agora. First Cemetery in the center of
Athens.
Cemetery and Holocaust Monument - in the Third Cemetery of Athens, in the suburb of Nikea,
Piraeus.
Athens Byzantine Museum - Inscriptions.
Jewish Youth Square (to commemorate Jewish Youth who perished in the Holocaust - Pafou
Square, Patissia area.
Jewish Elementary School - in the suburb of Paleo, Psychico.
THESSALONIKI
Monastirioton Synagogue - 35 Sygrou Str. Tel. 031 - 524 968. Synagogue and Center for
Historical Studies - 24
Vassileos Herakliou Str., 1st and 2nd Floor. Tel. 031-223 231.
Jewish Community Headquarters - 24 Tsimiski Str. Tel. 031-275 701.
Jewish Community Center - 24 Tsimiski Sir. Tel. 031-277 803. Cemetery and Memorial to
Holocaust Victims in the
suburb of Stavroupolis.
Yani Tzomi of the Donmeh - the building of the Old Archaeological Museum.
Square of the Jewish Martyrs of the Holocaust - Between the streets Papanastasiou,
Karakassi and Priamou.
Seoul Modiano House for the Aged - 83 Kimonos Voga Str. let. 031-848 250.
Hippokration Hospital - erected by the Community, Konstantinoupoleos Fleming Sir.
Jewish Elementary School - 17 Fleming Str.
Villa Casa Blanks - Fernandez - Vass. Olgas and Them. Sofouli Sir.
Villa Allatini - 198, Vass. Olgas Sir. Villa Modiano - 68, Vass. Olgas Str. Villa Mordoh -
162, Vass. Olgas Sir.
Modiano Open Market - Vass. Herakliou Str.
AEGINA
Remains of a Synagogue - in the square behind the Hotel.
ARTA
Pulieza Synagogue - Koumoundourou Str. Jewish Quarter-remains near the fortress.
CHALKIS
Synagogue-35 Kotsou Sir. Marble segments of the Synagogue were entombed into the new
building.
Jewish Community Headquarters - 35 Kotsou Str. 0221-80690.
Jewish Quarter - Located in the market place behind Avanton Str. In the square there is a
marble bust of Col.
Mordehai Frizis, the first Greek officer to be killed in action in World War II.
Chalkis Museum - manuscripts - inscriptions.
Chalkis Cemetery - Messapion Str., Jewish graves.
CHIOS
Jewish Quarter - remains, in the Francomahalas area Chios Museum - Jewish inscriptions.
CORFU
Greco Synagogue - Velissariou Str.
Jewish Community Headquarters - 83 Eug. Voulgareos Str. Tel. 0661-30 591.
Talmoud School - in a side street of Velissariou.
Puliezo Synagogue - only the "echal" has survived.
Jewish Quarter - in the center of the town.
Jewish Villa - lak. Polyla and Rizospaston Voulefton St
CRETE
Jewish Quarter - Hania, remains, area of the ancient
Synagogue - Hania, remainings, in the Jewish quarter.
Archaeological Museum of Heraklion - Jewish gravestones.
Archaeological Museum of Rethymno - Jewish gravestones.
DELOS
Ancient Synagogue - remains, inscriptions.
DRAMA (MACEDONIA)
Jewish Quarter -remains, in Aghia Varvara neighborhood.
Cemetery - remains, in the Kratika area (Dimosthenous Str.).
Cemetery - remains, Dimitras Sir.
Jewish Villa - houses today the "Olympion" cinema.
IOANNINA
Synagogue -in the Walled City.
Jewish Community Headquarters - 18B Yossef Eliya Str Tel: 0651-25195.
Eliya Street - named after the celebrated Jewish Greek poet.
A walk down the street provides an access to the old Jewish quarter of the city.
Evraika of Jewish Quarter - outside the Walled City, off Eliya Str.
Municipal Museum - Jewish Textiles, Parohets, Bema Covers and two of the oldest surviving
ketuboth in the world.
National Gardens - Marble bust of poet Yossef Eliya. Poet's Park.
IPATI (CENTRAL GREECE)
Jewish Quarter - remains in the Messala neighborhood, north-west side of the city.
Jewish fountain - in the center of the Jewish quarter.
Plaque from the Cemetery - placed in the central city's square.
KAVALA
Jewish Community Headquarters - 23 P. Mela Str. Tel. 051-223526.
Jewish Villa - houses today the Municipality, in the city's main square.
KOS
Old Synagogue - 4 Alexandrou Diakou Sir. - Today the Municipality's Cultural Center.
Jewish Cemetery - Community Exohi, place "Jewish tombs".
Jewish owned Villas.
KYPARISSIA (MESSINIA - PELOPONNESE)
Jewish Quarter - in the Pisso Rouga neighborhood.
Jewish Villa - nearby the small theater of the Castle.
LARISSA
Etz Haim Synagogue - 27 Kentavron and Kyprou Streets.
Jewish Community Headquarters - 29 Kentavron Str. Tel. 041-226396.
Jewish Elementary School - 9 Skarlatou Str.
NAFPAKTOS (LEPANTO)
Papaharalambios Public Library - Jewish tombstone inscriptions.
NAXOS
Jewish Quarter - in the northern side of the Castle.
Joseph Nassi Street - main street of the Jewish quarter.
Jewish symbols in the lintels of Orthodox Churches, "Metamorfosseos Platzas" and
"St. John Baptist".
PATRAS
Jewish Quarter - remains, in the "Tsivdi" neighborhood.
Cemetery - on the way to the Customs Office.
RHODES
Synagogue - Dosiadou and Simiou Street.
Jewish Community Headquarters - 5 Polidorou Str. Tel: 0241-22364.
Square of the Jewish Martyrs - End of Dosiadou Str.
Jewish Quarter - Old Jewish Quarter in the walled city, around today's Square of the
Jewish Martyrs.
Jewish Cemetery - The old cemetery was in Mandraki district but the Italians transferred
all the tombs to this new
location.
THIVA (THEBES)
Thebes Museum - Jewish inscriptions.
TRIKALA
Synagogue - 15 Athanassiou Diakou Str.
Jewish Community Headquarters and Community Center - Sokratous and Ploutonos Streets. Tel.
0431-27534.
Jewish Cemetery - on the national highway crossing the town.
VERIA
Synagogue - Merarchias Sir. - ruins in the Jewish quarter.
Jewish Community - 1 Verois Str. Tel. 0331-24774.
Jewish Quarter - off the city's main square.
Cemetery-Acropoleos Str, quarter Promitheos.
VOLOS
Synagogue - Xenophontos and Moisseos Streets.
Jewish Community-Xenophontos and Moisseos Strs. Tel. 0421-25640.
Jewish Community Center - in the courtyard of the Synagogue.
Cemetery - Taxiarchon and Paraskevopoulou Streets, Nee Ionia.
ZAKYNTHOS
Zakynthian Synagogue-remains, 44 Tertseti Sir.
Monument in the memory of Metropolite Chryssostomos and Mayor Loukas Carrer, in the
courtyard of the
Synagogue.
Cemetery - Place Rouveli, on the way to Bohali.
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