Synagogue halls
Full reconstructions.
Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) — CC BY-SA 4.0 · David Lisbona from Haifa, Israel — CC BY 2.0 · Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Avisadehh — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) — CC BY-SA 4.0
A museum telling the history and life of Moroccan Jews, founded in 1997 and considered the only museum devoted to Jewish heritage in the Arab world; its renovated building reopened in December 2016. It occupies a house built in 1948 as a Jewish orphanage, in the quiet Oasis district south-west of the centre. Before the mid-twentieth century Morocco was home to the largest Jewish community in the Muslim world; Moroccan Jews lived in its cities and villages for many centuries before most emigrated, and only a few thousand remain. The museum shows traditional costumes and silver jewellery, religious objects such as menorahs and Torah scrolls, crafts and old photographs of life in the mellahs, along with full reconstructions of prayer halls from old synagogues with their wooden furniture. Admission is about fifty dirhams according to recent guides; it opens Monday to Friday and on Sunday, and closes on Saturdays and Jewish holidays, so check times before you go. Visitors usually come by taxi from the centre.
Full reconstructions.
Old Moroccan silver.
Community life.
81 Rue Chasseur Jules Gros, Oasis, Casablanca
Monday to Friday, and on Sunday with shorter hours; it closes on Saturdays and Jewish holidays, so it is best to confirm times before going.