If you want to get a glimpse of what the Jewish community was like in its prime, when no less than 50.000 Jews lived in Alexandria, visit the 150 year-old Eliyahu Hanavi Sephardic synagogue on Nabi Daniel Street. The synagogue’s impressive interior will give you an idea of just how vibrant the community was. With towering Italian marble columns and brass nameplates of its male patrons, the synagogue seats over 700 people. There is also extra seating upstairs for women. At the front of the building is a closed chamber that holds 30 Torah scrolls which were collected from the city’s other synagogues when they closed.
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