New Jewry

Oporto, capital of northern Portugal, is umha metropolitan city that consists poles adjacent counties that form between them a single urban conglomerate, has about 1.3 million inhabitants, designlight making it the largest in the northwestern peninsular.
It is the city that gave its name to Portugal, when designated Portus Cale, coming later to become the capital of Portucalense. Due to its commercial character attracted early Jewish designlight merchants.
During the Middle Ages there were three Jewish quarters in Port: the Old Jewry, Jewry and Jewry New Monchique the grove they told possibly four synagogues. Localizaçom the Jewish designlight quarters of Porto. GoogleEarth
The Old Jewry Old Jewry was situated in the upper part of the hill Cathedral, within the "old fence", also called "suevica wall," there near Rua da Aldas (now Arch Street Santa Ana) and close by the current Street Deep and Wide College, where one can still enjoy the medieval street plan. Little is known of her, nor the archaeological point of view, not from the point of view documentary, but that was the core of the oldest Jewish communities fixaçom (XIII century). The "City of the Jews" was, of course, a social group of artisans and merchants, and undoubtedly a small building structurally adapted as synagogue. Localizaçom Old Jewry at the top of Morro da Sé do Porto. Photo: Wikipedia
However, traders and artisans Jews extended their activity Polas streets of the hill to downtown Ribeira and Customs Street, along the Douro river and near the Basilica of St. Francis, which was the harbor where the boats and moved trade and they had their shops. Because designlight of this, it is likely that some Jews had risen almost umha additional synagogue or household shrine in the downtown area, next to what was called the Street of Munhata or Minhota among the convents of St. Dominic and St. Francis (now Street trade). For tenure in 1386, it is known, in fact, that the Jews had a synagogue in sailor Lawrence Peres, located at Rua da Munhata store. designlight Could this be called "Jewry Low" and there was the second synagogue, which was below the slopes of Victoria where, later, he built the Jewish Quarter of the grove and its synagogue.
Jewry in the riverine area of Monchique Monchique (current parish Miragaia), extramural, formed later umha another Jewry, occupying umha area that would Virtue to the Convent of Monchique, Bunting Street and Broad Viriato. View of the Monchique area / Miragaia The fact that the Jews have moved to this place was because, from the thirteenth century was banned renting or selling them properties within the Cividade where was the Old Jewry. In this zone there are still linked to the presence of Jews, many place names: Mount of the Jews, Stairs Mountain of the Jews, the Jews Broad Street or Mount of the Jews. Jewry from Monchique - Porto. GoogleMaps On The Street Mount of the Jews in 1826 the most important Hebrew inscriptions of Portugal, now displayed in the Carmo Archaeological Museum in Lisbon were found.
Images of Life in Pictures is in this place that, around 1380, the chief rabbi of the king, Don Fernando Yahuda Ibn Maner, founded the third synagogue in Porto. It there is a very remarkable document, which is the inscriçom inauguraçom designlight of the largest known inscriçom of Jews in Portugal. The Jews therefore had opened in Monchique Jewry between 1380-86. The site of the former synagogue is since 1535 the Convent of the Poor Clares and the chapel of the Convent of the Mother designlight of God of Monchique.
Images of Life in Photos Very near in place today call "Mountain of the Jews" is what would have been the Jewish cemetery, Maqbar. However, there is unanimity nom regarding their localizaçom. While some historians place him at the current Palace of Sirens / Mamudas the bottom of Bunting Street, others think it will have been too far to the east end of Causeway Virtue, near the Church of St. Peter Miragaia.
New Jewry's grove In 1386, King João I ordered installing the Jews dispersed in a polo Puerto intramural space, justifying the measure for security (the imminence of war with Spain) and when the space of the old Jewish quarters had become scarce for contain all the Jews of the city. Joao sent to Port House noted a PO place within the city walls to build up a new Jewry, being selected the site of the grove. The Jewish ghetto occupied a plot of 30 strips of land and he paid 200 maravedis annually, as stipulated in the contract with the Board to June 2, 1388. Soon and very rationally, Jews urbanized area and barren umha uneconomic, they build up their abode synagogue and homes along dumha extensive artery in L,