Mattancherry Jewish Cemetery — Local services in Kerala

It is the big and highly protected Jewish Cemetry in Kerala.The Mattanchery Jewish Cemetry covered with a tall compound wall with an iron locked gate.No one to allow to go inside the cemetery.It was really beautiful and a historical landmark of the Jewish people lives in Kochi Kerala before the birth of the country Israyel.Its near by the Jewish town and Jewish street near Mattanchery Kochi.In 1948 the state of Israel was declared,the Cochin Jews decided en masse to immigrate to the new country.The cemetry is under the Paradesi Synagogue in Mattancherry,which was orginally built in 1568 and still...

Jews Cemetery, Jews Town, Mattancherry, Kochi

It is the huge and protected Jewish Cemetery located about 250 meters from the Jewish Synagogue at Jews Town, Mattancherry Kochi in Kerala.

The Mattancherry Jewish Cemetery has a tall compound wall with an iron locked gate. The tomb stones have inscriptions both in Malayalam and Hebrew. The tombs have huge and massive structures.

Visitors are not allowed inside.

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Both synagogue and jew town is maintaining very well and attracting lot of tourists from India and abroad It's very clean atmosphere Sunscreen,caps and sunglasses recommended The service is conducted only when the quorum of ten male members is met. The synagogue is open every day except Fridays, Saturdays and Jewish holidays. Timings: forenoon - 10 am to 12 noon; afternoon - 3 pm to 5 pm. Visitors are expected to enter the...