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The Jewish Ghetto in Venice, widely considered the first in Europe, celebrated its 500th anniversary in 2016.

The first documents indicating a Jewish presence in Mantua, Italy, date from 1145. The Jewish community grew substantially during the 1400s, when Roman and German Jews migrated to northern Italy.

Zhovkva Synagogue was built in the 1690s for a rapidly growing Jewish community.

The nineteenth-century Joniškis synagogue complex, consisting of two synagogues, served as a center of Jewish life in the town until World War II.

Portuguese Jews settled in Amsterdam after fleeing persecution in Spain in the sixteenth century.

Designed in the late 1890s and built in 1902, Subotica Synagogue is among the most impressive examples of art nouveau ecclesiastical architecture in the region.

The Schola Canton, constructed in 1532, stands as one of the oldest and most important extant Jewish institutions in the city.

The Republic of Cape Verde is an archipelago of ten islands in the Atlantic Ocean about 300 miles off the coast of Senegal.

The Great Synagogue is the oldest extant synagogue in Romania and is one of two surviving synagogues in a city that once housed over 100 Jewish houses of worship.

Central Synagogue is the largest synagogue in the Balkans, and among the biggest surviving in Europe.

Synagogue Kahal Kadosh Shalom (Holy Congregation of Peace), better known as the New Synagogue, is the only Sephardic temple remaining on the Greek island of Rhodes.

Designed in 1903 by Viennese architect Wilhelm Stiassny and completed in 1906 by Alois Richter, Jerusalem Synagogue remains a religious and cultural center for the Jewish community of Prague.