Places in Georgia

The third largest and one of the oldest working synagogues of Georgia: an eclectic, Moorish-looking domed house of prayer built of white limestone in Oni in 1895 and compared with the synagogue of Warsaw. Begun on the initiative of Rabbi Elia Amshikashvili, saved from demolition in the 1920s and restored after the earthquake of 1991, it had 3,150 congregants in 1972 and a handful of families today, and has been a monument of national significance since 2006.