| Old Yemenite Synagogue | |
| Religious Affiliation: | Judaism |
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| Organizational Status: | --> |
| Functional Status: | Active |
| Location: | Silwan, East Jerusalem |
| Country: | State of Palestine |
| Map Type: | Jerusalem |
| Map Size: | 250 |
| Map Relief: | 1 |
| Year Completed: | 1890; 2015 |
| Date Destroyed: | --> |
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The Old Yemenite Synagogue, known to its congregation as Beit Knesset Ohel Shlomo (lit. "Solomon's Tent Synagogue"), is a Jewish congregation and restored synagogue,[1] located in the Silwan district of East Jerusalem. The synagogue was constructed in the nineteenth century[2] in the Yemenite Village (Harat al-Yaman in Arabic), in the Kfar Hashiloach (he|כפר השילוח) neighborhood.
Between 1885 and 1891, 45 stone houses were built for the Yemenite Jews which had arrived in Jerusalem in 1882.[3]
In 1936, during the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine, the Yemenite-Jewish community was removed from Silwan by the Welfare Bureau of the Jerusalem Community Council (Va'ad ha-Kehillah), the local counterpart of the Jewish National Council (Va'ad Leumi), into the Jewish Quarter as security conditions for Jews worsened.[2] and in 1938, the remaining Yemenite Jews in Silwan were evacuated by the Jewish Community Council on the advice of the police.[4] [5]
In May 2015 Ateret Cohanim, a Jewish group that had established legal ownership of the old synagogue, moved into the building.[6] [7] [8] Local residents threw rocks at the activists as they moved in.[6]