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Kfar Bar'am synagogue

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “site of an ancient jewish village in northern israel”. Today it says “archaeological ruins of two former ancient jewish synagogues”.
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Kfar Bar'am Synagogue ( Hebrew : כְּפַר בַּרְעָם ), also known as the Kafar Berem Synagogue , is the archaeological ruins of two former ancient Jewish synagogues , located at the site of Kafr Bir'im , a former Palestinian Christian village , in what is today the Bar'am National Park . The synagogue is in the Galilee region of the Northern District of Israel , approximately 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from the border with Lebanon . It is estimated that the former synagogue was completed in the 3rd century, during the Roman period , likely by c. 220 CE , and was located in the medieval Jewish village of Kfar Bar'am. The façade of the 3rd-century synagogue faces south, towards Jerusalem, as the custom of most synagogues, and was replete with a covered portico containing six stone columns. It was first identified as a synagogue in modern times in 1852 – along with other similar remains in Galilee – by Edward Robinson in his Biblical Researches in Palestine . In Yitzhaki, Arieh (ed.). Israel Guide - Upper Galilee, Huleh Basin and Jordan Source Region (A useful encyclopedia for the knowledge of the country) (in Hebrew). It must be remembered that the first of those to identify 'house of assembly' remains in the Land of Israel in the modern age was the American theologian, E. Robinson , considered to be the "father of the study of the Land of Israel"

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site of an ancient jewish village in northern israel

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archaeological ruins of two former ancient jewish synagogues

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