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Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/27/exclusive-pictures-syria-s-oldest-synagogue-destroyed-by-assad.html

Photos: Syria's Oldest Synagogue, Destroyed by Assad

(Daily Beast) Josh Rogin - Syrian Army forces flattened the over 400-year-old Eliyahu Hanabi Synagogue in Damascus last month. Shlomo Bolts, an official at the Syrian American Council and a Jew of Syrian ancestry, said: "This is hardly the only place of worship to be destroyed by the Assad regime. The Umm al-Zinar Church [in Homs, that locals say dates back to the first centuries of Christianity], the [1,400-year-old] Khalid Ibn Walid Mosque, and countless other irreplaceable cultural sites are now lost." Activists estimate that at least 33 churches and hundreds of mosques have been destroyed by the Assad regime since the start of the Syrian civil war, as well as six UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

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