Building Name: | Centro Hebreo Sefaradi Synagogue |
Image Upright: | 1.4 |
Map Type: | Cuba |
Map Size: | 250 |
Map Relief: | 1 |
Location: | Havana |
Country: | Cuba |
Religious Affiliation: | Conservative Judaism |
Rite: | Nusach Sefard |
Status: | Synagogue |
Functional Status: | Active |
Groundbreaking: | 1957 |
Year Completed: | 1960 |
The Centro Hebreo Sefaradi Synagogue is a Conservative Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Havana, Cuba.
Construction began in 1957 and the synagogue was completed in 1960[1] with a 726-seat sanctuary.[2] 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.[1]
In 2007 Centro Hebreo Sefaradi Synagogue was described as “…the only remaining institutional legacy of the Sephardic presence in Cuba.”, the synagogue had eighty families constituting 320 members. The majority of congregants were 60 or older.
Centro Hebreo is affiliated with the Conservative movement in the United States.[1] There is a small Holocaust memorial at the synagogue with quotations from José Martí.[3]