cemetery Archives - Portugal Confidential https://portugalconfidential.com/tag/cemetery/ Travel & Lifestyle Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:12:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://portugalconfidential.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-LinkedIN-PC-T_L-Lauch-Profile-Photo-400x400-1-32x32.jpg cemetery Archives - Portugal Confidential https://portugalconfidential.com/tag/cemetery/ 32 32 Jewish Cemetery & Isaac Bitton Museum – Faro https://portugalconfidential.com/jewish-cemetery-isaac-bitton-museum-faro/ https://portugalconfidential.com/jewish-cemetery-isaac-bitton-museum-faro/#respond Sat, 23 Jan 2016 11:11:42 +0000 https://portugalconfidential.com/?p=33458 The Faro Jewish Cemetery is the last remaining vestige of the post inquisition Jewish presence in the Algarve. 106 graves in the cemetery, which is paved with Portuguese calçada. 71 of the graves have inscriptions indicating burials took place here from 1838 to 1932. There is a tahara house in which bodies were washed and prayers were said, which is now a museum annex. The Isaac Bitton Museum houses valuable books, documents and Jewish artifacts, collected over recent years. A […]

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