Synagogue Tempio Norsa Torrazzo

The Tempio Norsa Torrazzo Synagogue, built in 1513 but rebuilt in 1751, is located in the building in via Govi 13. It is a national monument. Six were the synagogues in the ancient Ghetto of Mantua.

When the demolition of the Jewish quarter was decided at the end of the nineteenth century, between 1899 and 1902 one of them was moved and faithfully reconstructed in the courtyard of the current building, which since 1825 had been a retirement home.

The Norsa Torrazzo Synagogue, of Italian rite, is thus the only one in Mantua to have survived with its original eighteenth-century furnishings. The other synagogues were demolished in the early twentieth century and their furnishings either went missing or were moved to Israel.

Map: Synagogue Tempio Norsa Torrazzo