 Other features of Indian synagogues are free-standing wooden benches, a profusion of hanging glass and metal oil lanterns, large shuttered windows with clerestories, a chair for the circumcision ceremony and one for the prophet Elijah, and separate seating areas for men and women.Kerala, in far south-western India, has six remaining buildings.Only one, in Cochin's (Kochi) Jew Town, is a functioning house of prayer.