La Sinagoga di Sant’Anna, detached from other surrounding buildings, is located on La Giudea street in Trani and today stands as a living testimony to Jewish culture in the Apulian town during the Middle Ages.
The former Synagogue underwent modifications during the Christian period, leaving some original parts unchanged such as the external masonry structure, the intrados dome in the octagonal drum, a small pointed tympanum, and today after careful restorative conservation it is possible to admire the various transformations over the centuries.
Next to the findings of the synagogue’s primordial structures, one can observe seventeenth-century decorations and an eighteenth-century crypt.
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 derived from donations and loans.
