Synagogues at extreme latitudes

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Contents 1 NORTH 2 SOUTH

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[edit] NORTH

The northernmost Jewish communities in the World

Latitude	City/Town	Congregation/s
68° 58' N	Murmansk, Russia	Jewish Community of Murmansk
64° 52' N	Fairbanks, Alaska	Congregation Or HaTzafon - Light of the North (Reform) synagogue since Rosh Hashana 1992
64° 33' N	Arkhangelsk, Russia	Jewish Community of Arkhamgelsk
64° 30' N	Nome, Alaska	Jews in Nome - Synagogue
63° 25' N	Trondheim, Norway	The Jewish Community of Trondheim (Orthodox)
62° 28' N	Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada	Arctic Jewish Community Association
62° 10' N	Yakutsk, Yakutia (Siberia)	Jewish Community of Yakutsk
61° 10' N	Anchorage, Alaska	Congregation Beth Sholom (Reform) Lubavitch Jewish Center of Alaska / Congregation Shomrei Ohr (Lubavitch) - tel. +1 907 279-1200
60° 43' N	Whitehorse, Yukon	Jewish Historical Society of Whitehorse, Yukon
60° 10' N	Helsinki, Finland	The Jewish Community of Helsinki (Orthodox)
59° 57' N	Oslo, Norway	The Jewish Community of Oslo (Orthodox)
59° 57' N	Petersburg, Russia	Jewish St. Petersburg
59° 37' N	Tallinn, Estonia	Jewish Community of Tallinn
59° 20' N	Stockholm, Sweden	Judiska Församlingen, Stockholm

[edit] SOUTH

The southernmost Jewish communities in the world

Latitude	City/Town	Congregation/s
33° 27' S	Santiago, Chile	?
33° 55' S	Cape Town, South Africa	Cape Town, South Africa (presentation from Beth Hatefutsoth)
34° 35' S	Buenos Aires, Argentina	About 200,000 Jews.
36° 52' S	Auckland, New Zealand	Beth Israel - Auckland Hebrew Congregation (Orthodox) 108 Greys Avenue P O Box 68224, Auckland Tel.: (09) 373-2908, Fax: (09) 303-2147 Contact: Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence Beth Shalom - The Progressive Jewish Congregation of Auckland 180 Manukau Road, Epsom P O Box 26052, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand Tel.: (09) 524-4139, Fax: (09) 524-7075 Email: info@bethshalom.org.nz
36° 50' S	Concepción, Chile	?
38° 00' S	Mar del Plata, Argentina	About 4,000 Jews.
38° 43' S	Bahía Blanca, Argentina	About 4,000 Jews.
38° 45' S	Temuco, Chile	?
40° 45' S	Valdivia, Chile	?
41° 17' S	Wellington, New Zealand	Wellington Hebrew Congregation / Beth-El Synagogue (Orthodox) 80 Webb Street, Wellington, New Zealand Tel./Fax: (04) 384-5081 Contact: Rabbi Shmuel Zajac. Temple Sinai - Wellington Progressive Jewish Community 147 Ghuznee Street, P O Box 27301, Wellington, New Zealand Tel.: (04) 385-0720; Fax: (04) 385-0572 Contact: Rabbi Michael L Abraham
42° 40' S	Hobart, Tasmania	Hobart Synagogue (Hobart Hebrew Congregation) Argyle Street Tel.: (03) 6234 4720 “Built by the congregation of the York Street Synagogue of Sydney in 1845, the edifice displays an Egyptian Revival exterior, and a Victorian interior. The synagogue is the oldest still standing, and from its apex in the early 19th century when it vouched the second largest congregation in the colony, the community since then has greatly diminished.” «Against all odds: one hundred and fifty years of survival» (by Rabbi John Levi) Old ‘Shul’ Ties (by Mark Schulman)
43° 33' S	Christchurch, New Zealand	Canterbury Jewish Congregation 406 Durham Street, P.O.B. 21253, Christchurch, New Zealand Tel.: (03) 365-7412, Fax: (03) 355-7982 Email: coxst@chch.planet.org.nz
45° 52' S	Dunedin, New Zealand	Dunedin Jewish Congregation P.O.B. 1114, Dunedin, New Zealand President: Ms Diana Rothstein, phone 03 477 1974, E-mail: diana.rothstein@stonebow.otago.ac.nz