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Security in the Jewish community is very tight. An essential prelude to any visit to any synagogue in Turkey is contact with the Jewish Heritage tour company in Istanbul .

They will ask you to complete a form giving details of a reference your adress in Turkey and the dates and times you wish to visit particular synagogues...

ISTANBUL

After the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in1453 , Sultan Mehmet II ( the Conqueor 1451-1481 ) encouraged immigration to repopulate the city. Jewish communities were invited to take up residence at Hasköy on the eastern bank of the Golden Horn.

Under Sultan Beyazit II ( 1481-1512 ) Jews persecuted in Spain and Portugal were encouraged to establish themselves in the Ottoman Empire.

In Istanbul the new immigrants settled mostly near the Balat quarter on the western bank of the Golden Horn where a Jewish community had existed since Byzantine times. Jews also settled in villages along the western shore of the Bosphorus....

GALATA

The area around the Galata Tower in Beyoglu is of prime interest to visitors touring the Jewish interest sites. The neighborhood has bustling street life the synagogues have great historical and artictic value,and all sites are within easy walking distance of one another.

BALAT

This is another of the quarters in which Jews were settled after their expulsion from Spain enlarging a community which had lived here since Byzantine times. Today Balat is a working-class district on the shores of the Golden Horn.

SISLI

Sisli (SHEESH-lee) is a prosperous residential and commercial district 2-1/2 km north of Taksim Square. Two Jewish interest sites,the Sisli Beth Israel Synagogue and the Italian Jewish Cemetery are worth visiting here..

ORTAKOY

In the nineteenth century,many wealthy Istanbul families had summer houses in Ortakoy ( OHR-tah-keuy ) then a Bosphorus village. Today Ortakoy has become part of the Istanbul metropolis and is a fashionable place to live winter or summer. Though the Jewish orphanage here is gone and the Historic ETZ Ahayim Synagogue building burnt in 1941 and there is stilla synagogue here and many order historic Ottoman sites in the vicinity.

PRINCESS ISLANDS

Some historians say the Princes' Islands ,a half hour's voyage southeast of Istanbul in the Sea of Marmara were named for their use as a place
of exile for wayward or inconvinent Byzantine princes. In Turkish they are simply called Adalar ( ah-dal-LAHR).

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