{"id":1271,"date":"2018-06-24T10:20:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T08:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/?post_type=listing&#038;p=1271"},"modified":"2025-11-22T22:35:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:35:59","slug":"oratorio-di-castro","status":"publish","type":"listing","link":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/listing\/oratorio-di-castro\/","title":{"rendered":"Di Castro Synagogue (Oratorio Di Castro) &#8211; Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new synagogue was built in 1914, a few years after the large <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/listing\/tempio-maggiore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tempio Maggiore<\/a> was opened, to meet the needs of a Jewish community whose distribution within the city had changed, as many had left the ghetto area after Emancipation or had arrived from other Italian cities at that time.<\/p>\n<p>The hall bears some of the synagogue features from the Emancipation especially as to the lay-out and various decorative elements.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>tevah<\/em> and <em>aron<\/em> are brought together in a single space, enclosed by a balustrade. They are at the end of the hall, in line with the entrance and facing pews in two parallel rows along the centre. The women\u2019s gallery is above the entrance.<\/p>\n<p>The Oratorio Di Castro also has furnishings which previously belonged to the Cinque Scole: the candelabra on the <em>tevah<\/em>, the <em>ner tamid <\/em>and the lamps hanging in front of the <em>aron <\/em>are all from Scola Castigliana. The stained glass windows are modern and were made by Aldo Di Castro in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1972 the basement rooms have housed an Ashkenazi rite synagogue, designed by architect Angelo Di Castro. The candelabra and the gilded wooden doors of the <em>a<\/em><em>ron <\/em>are also from Scola Castigliana.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Via Cesare Balbo, 33 \u2013 00184 Rome<\/p>\n<p>Visits subject to booking: + 39 06 68400635\/6 &#8211; tel. + 39 329 9543500<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","listing-category":[6],"list-tags":[],"location":[187,49],"acf":[],"cubewp_post_meta":[],"taxonomies":["Synagogue","Lazio","Rome","Optional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing\/1271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"listing-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing-category?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"list-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/list-tags?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitjewishitaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}