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Maribor Synagogue

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “former synagogue and current museum in the city of maribor”. Today it says “former orthodox jewish congregation and synagogue”.
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Maribor, Slovenia Maribor Synagogue ( Slovene : Sinagoga Maribor ) is a former Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue , located in what was the center of the medieval Maribor ghetto Židovska ulica ("Jewish Street"), in the city of Maribor , Slovenia . The former congregation was established in the 14th century and worshiped in the Ashkenazi rite . The synagogue building was completed in the late 14th century, the building served as a synagogue until 1497; as a church from 1501 until 1785; and as a Jewish history museum , called the Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor , since 2001. It is one of the oldest preserved synagogues in Europe , and one of only two left in Slovenia; the other being the Lendava Synagogue . It once functioned as the centre of the medieval Jewish community in Maribor, among the most prominent in the Eastern Alps-area. The Center for Jewish Art . The Hebrew University of Jerusalem . 2020 .

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Then

former synagogue and current museum in the city of maribor

Now

former orthodox jewish congregation and synagogue

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