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Landmark Americas religious

Touro Synagogue

1763 CE – still standing

Oldest surviving synagogue in North America, in Newport, Rhode Island

Wikipedia

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Touro Synagogue on Wikipedia.

Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–1715 CE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1783 CE–2026 CE)

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

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