Sinagoga museale di Sant’Anna, Trani

La Sinagoga di Sant’Anna, detached from other surrounding buildings, is located on La Giudea street in Trani and is today a living testimony of Jewish culture in the Apulian town during the Middle Ages.

The former Synagogue underwent Christian period modifications leaving some original parts unchanged such as the external masonry, the intradosed dome in the octagonal drum, a small pointed pediment, and today after a careful conservative restoration it is possible to admire the various transformations over the centuries.

Indeed, alongside findings of primordial synagogue structures, seventeenth-century decorations and an eighteenth-century crypt can be observed.

In November 2009, the building thus inaugurated the Jewish Art Section of the Diocesan Museum, a section that houses important artifacts of Jewish culture dating back to the 13th-15th centuries, Jewish tombstones, interesting archival documents, fragments of the Hebrew Bible and parchment fragments, Jewish ritual objects such as the mezuzah, these artifacts mostly owned by the Archdiocese of Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie or coming from donations and loans.