Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies and the temples were allowed to collect the yearly tax paid by all Jewish men for temple maintenance.

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KYOTO—Researchers may have uncovered the ruins of one of the largest ancient cafeterias for a Buddhist temple in the Nara Period (710-784). The Kyoto prefectural board of education made the ...

It was considered one of the greatest wonders from the middle ancient ... Temple and Linggu Temple). It was located at Changganli out of Nanjing's Jubao Gate (today's Zhonghua Gate). The ruins ...

It sits covered with the geraniums popular in the city’s historic Jewish quarter ... of the most visited countries on the planet. And ancient synagogues can be tourist draws, especially for ...