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Jewish Quarter of Híjar

Híjar, Bajo Martín, Teruel

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Jewish Quarter of Híjar

Monument · Híjar, Bajo Martín, Teruel

Image of Híjar, not of the place itself.

The old Jewish quarter of Híjar, a testimony to the medieval coexistence of the three cultures. It is arranged around the triangular plaza of San Antón and the streets of la Fuente, Jesús and Azaguán, at the foot of the castle square. It flourished during the late Middle Ages and came to have around 150 residents at the end of the 15th century, until the expulsion of 1492; a document from 1410 records the request to enlarge the synagogue by Açach Chinillo. The old synagogue is preserved today as the hermitage of San Antonio Abad, with a single nave and a gabled roof, where the location of the officiant's platform has been identified. The Jewish quarter also had its own oven, butcher's shop, ritual bath (mikveh), cemetery and Talmudic school, and it is listed as a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection).

Photo: Juan Emilio Prades Bel (CC BY 4.0)

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