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Grand Synangogue of Krasnaya Sloboda  
   

Grand Synangogue of Krasnaya Sloboda

Quba - In the misty mountains!

October 1st 2008
Quba (pronounced Guba) is a small town in the North of Azerbaijan in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains. It was a nice place for our first trip out of Baku. On Thursday afternoon it was decided that Monday would be a public holiday. This made for a 5 day weekend as Tuesday and Wednesday were already holidays for Eid al Fitr, the end of Ramadan. It was too good an opportunity to miss ... read more
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Azerbaijani Flag Azerbaijan - a nation with a Turkic and majority-Muslim population - regained its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Despite a 1994 cease-fire, Azerbaijan has yet to resolve its conflict with Armenia over the Azerbaijani Nag... ... read more
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19th September 2010

the favorite Grand Synagoge
Grand Synagoge in russian it is Six domes synagoge, it was build in 19 century. In the Past in Little Jerusalem this is another name of Krasnaya Sloboda, there were 13-teen synagoges. I am the mountain Jew, I live in Baku, however my grandfathers and grandmothers from Krasnaya Sloboda, I am proud that I am from Quba, and we are the evidence of the Old Jewish People from Israel))) Thank you for visiting the Little Jerusalem)))

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