Dutch tiles on floor of south Indian Jewish temple

Cochin's Paradesi temple was built in 1567, more than a century before the Dutch East India Company occupied the city. Traders flourished theret, since ships could obtain fresh food and water in their long transits between South Africa and present-day Indonesia. The Dutch ruled over Cochin 1661-1795, having initially wrested it from Portugal, then losing it to England. The synagogue, still in occasional use, receives thousands of visitors annually.

Welch, Claude Emerson

State University of New York at Buffalo

2004-12

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Cochin (India)

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