Centro Hebreo Sefaradi de Cuba

Centro Hebreo Sefaradi de Cuba - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

In 2007 Centro Hebreo Sefaradi Synagogue was described as “…the only remaining institutional legacy of the Sephardic presence in Cuba.” Construction originally began in 1957 and the synagogue was completed in 1960 with a 726-seat sanctuary. The main sanctuary was later rented out to the Afro-Cuban band Síntesis for their rehearsals while weekly religious services were held in a small room next door.Behar, p. 66 As of 2010, the synagogue had eighty families constituting 320 members. The majority of congregants were 60 or older. Read more on Wikipedia

type: religious building
date from: None

Source: en.wikipedia.org