Or Thora Synagogue (Tunis)

It was completed in the early 1930s, prior to World War II.^[1] It was designed by architects Aimé Krief and Jean Sebag.^[1] Habib Bourguiba, who served as the President of Tunisia from 1957 to 1987, visited the synagogue on February 12, 1957.^[1]

After the departure of most of the Tunisian Jews for Israel and France following the anti-Jewish riots during the Six-Day War in 1967,^[2] which included the burning of the Torah Scrolls at the synagogue,^[3] religious services stopped being offered at the synagogue. It is currently not in use.^[4][5]

There are^[when?] ongoing discussions among the Tunisian Jewish community and the residents of the Hafsia to turn the Or-Thora Synagogue into a museum of the Hara,^[6][7] with a project led by Leila Ben Gacem^[8] and a team of architects from the NGO Association de sauvegarde de la médina de Tunis, with the aim to save the synagogue from total degradation.

• History of the Jews in Tunisia
• List of synagogues in Tunisia