Egypt has received a world award for its restoration work on a historic synagogue within the metropolis of Alexandria. In line with an announcement by the Ministry of Antiquities on Fb earlier this month, the restoration of the Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue received the award for ‘Finest Venture: Renovation/Restoration within the Engineering Information-File’s (ENR) World Finest Tasks Competitors’.
Egypt’s Youm7 web site said that “Egypt is the one nation within the competitors that received 4 awards out of 30 successful tasks, and probably the most distinguished Egyptian award was for the very best worldwide mission within the class of restoration and rehabilitation tasks for the mission of restoring the Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue in Alexandria.”
Firstly of final yr, the Egyptian authorities inaugurated the historic synagogue, which dates again to the 14th century following renovations amounting to $4.23 million (68 million Egyptian kilos).
The Eliyahu Hanavi was as soon as residence to the Egyptian Jewish group of greater than 20,000 through the center of the final century and is likely one of the two remaining synagogues within the Mediterranean metropolis. Nonetheless, it’s thought that right now’s inhabitants consists of simply 10 aged members. It is usually one of many largest within the Center East, though it was closed by the authorities in 2012 resulting from safety issues.
Initially inbuilt 1354, it was bombed throughout Napoleon’s invasion in 1798 and rebuilt on the similar web site through the 1850s by an Italian architect.
