 Coro Synagogue

The "Casa de Oración Hebrea", mostly known as the Coro Synagogue, is a synagogue in the city of Santa Ana de Coro, Falcón, Venezuela, a city located near the Caribbean Sea coast and the Dutch island of Curaçao; it is known as one of the oldest synagogues in Latin America.The synagogue was originally a house built in the first half of the XVIII century by the lieutenant governor of Coro Don Francisco Campuzano Polanco as his residence, bought on July 30, 1847 by Mr. David Abraham Senior, a sephardic trader from Curaçao who lived in the city and formed part of the growing Jewish community of the city.