Old Yemenite Synagogue (Silwan)
The Old Yemenite Synagogue, known to its congregation as Beit Knesset Ohel Shlomo, is a Jewish congregation and restored synagogue, located in the Silwan district of East Jerusalem. The synagogue was constructed in the nineteenth century in the Yemenite Village, in the Kfar Hashiloach neighborhood.
History
Jewish community in Silwan (1884-1938)
Between 1885 and 1891, 45 stone houses were built for the Yemenite Jews which had arrived in Jerusalem in 1882.In 1936, during the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine, the Yemenite-Jewish community was removed from Silwan by the Welfare Bureau of the Jerusalem Community Council, the local counterpart of the Jewish National Council, into the Jewish Quarter as security conditions for Jews worsened. and in 1938, the remaining Yemenite Jews in Silwan were evacuated by the Jewish Community Council on the advice of the police.