Metadata: Archives of the Communauté Sépharade de Bruxelles
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- Jewish Museum of Belgium
- Holding institution (official language):
- Musée Juif de Belgique
- Postal address:
- Miniemenstraat 21 / Rue des Minimes 21, 1000 Bruxelles
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)2 512 19 63
- Web address:
- http://www.new.mjb-jmb.org
- Email:
- info@mjb-jmb.org
- Reference number:
- JM-Brussels-Fonds Communauté Sépharade de Bruxelles
- Title:
- Archives of the Communauté Sépharade de Bruxelles
- Title (official language):
- Fonds Communauté Sépharade de Bruxelles
- Creator/accumulator:
- Communauté Sépharade de Bruxelles, Schaarbeek
- Date(s):
- 1963
- Extent:
- 1 box
- Scope and content:
- This fonds consists of the building plans of the synagogue located in the rue du Pavillon in Schaerbeek (Brussels)(dated 1963). (see box 164)
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Although a number of Jewish Sephardic families were already present in Belgium before the First World War, a Sephardic community in the capital was only officially recognised in 1958. The Sephardic Jews who emigrated to Belgium during the interwar period originated from Salonica, Istanbul and Izmir; after the Second World War they mainly came from Morocco and Rhodes via the Belgian Congo, from Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran. The project to erect a synagogue in the rue du Pavillon in Schaerbeek dated from 1966; the synagogue was completed in 1970. The community is supported by the non-profit association asbl Synagogue and a Société de Bienfaisance. In 2007 a new community centre was opened in the avenue Winston Churchill 150 in Uccle. (La Communauté Israélite Sepharade de Bruxelles http://www.jewishcom.be)
- Access points: locations:
- Brussels
- Subject terms:
- Architectural drawings
- Architecture
- Jewish community
- Sephardi Jews
- Synagogues
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of the archivist of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
- Finding aids:
- There is a preliminary inventory of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
