History of Jews Bene Israel community Culture & Jews Synagogues Temple in Mumbai , Hindustan ( Bharat / India)
History of Jews Bene Israel community Culture & Jews Synagogues Temple in Mumbai , Hindustan (Bharat / India) History of Jews Bene Israel community Culture & Jews Synagogues Temple in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) always had the large Jewish population and during the 1940s it reached its peak with a figure of almost 30,000. Today the Mumbai Jews number about 3,500 and the houses a total of 9 synagogues. Out of the nine, six are in the down town Mumbai area while the remaining three are in the outskirts of the city. The first group of Jews arrived in the Cochin region of Kerala long before the birth of Christ and came to be known as the Cochin Jews. Next came the Bene Israel (literally meaning the Children of Israel) Jews, who were considered as descended of the lost tribes of Israel. They arrived more than three centuries ago and settled along the west cost of India. At the end of the 19th century came the Baghdadi Jews, as the name suggests, are of Iraqi origin. They were a flou
