What you'll hear inside Ibn Danan Synagogue:

• 1
  Main Prayer Hall

  A rectangular hall housing the key liturgical features of the Sephardic tradition, its zellige, stucco and carved woodwork bathed in light from small windows, creating a deeply contemplative…

• 2
  Women's Gallery

  The upper-floor gallery of Ibn Danan Synagogue, screened from the main hall below by carved wooden lattices, where women would follow the religious services unseen from the floor below.

• 3
  Mikveh (Ritual Bath)

  Hewn from rock in the synagogue's basement and fed by natural water, this ritual purification bath is among the best-preserved of its kind in any Moroccan synagogue.

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  Torah Ark (Hejal)

  The sacred focal point of the Ibn Danan Synagogue's prayer hall, housing the Torah scrolls in the Sephardic tradition known as the Hejal.

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  Bimah with Wrought-Iron Tevah

  A raised platform at the heart of the prayer hall, crowned by a striking wrought-iron canopy of scrollwork, lattices and arches with clear Islamic influence.