Welcome to The Complete Jewish Pilgrim, a guide to the 100 Greatest Jewish Sites around the world. These places, chosen for their religious, historic and architectural importance, encompass millenia of the Jewish religious experience. Come explore synagogues, shrines, tombs, museums and other amazing pilgrimage destinations, from the ancient places of the Torah to modern architectural masterpieces , and everything in between. Discover what hidden treasures of faith may be found in your own neighborhood.
Patriarchal Period
- Mount Ararat || Dogubayzit, Turkey
- Tomb of Job || Salalah, Oman
- Ruins of Ur || Nasiriyah, Iraq
- Ancient Haran & Tomb of Terah || Harran, Turkey
- Abraham’s Well || Beersheba, Israel
- Ruins of Sodom || Bab Edh-Dhra, Jordan
- Tomb of the Patriarchs || Hebron, Palestine
- Tomb of Rachel || Bethlehem, Palestine
- Ancient Shechem & Tomb of Joseph || Nablus, Palestine
- Tombs of the Sons of Jacob || Several Locations, Israel & Lebanon
Exodus Period
- Ruins of Pi-Rameses || Tel el-Da’ba, Egypt
- Mount Sinai || Feran, Egypt
- Mount Hor & Tomb of Aaron || Petra, Jordan
- Mount Nebo || Madaba, Jordan
- Tombs of the Sons of Aaron || Awarta, Palestine
Judges Period
- Ancient Jericho & Ruins of Gilgal || Jericho, Palestine
- Ancient Shiloh || Beth-El, Palestine
- Tomb of Joshua || Kifl Hares, Palestine
- Valley of Jezreel || Tel Megiddo, Israel
- Tomb of Samuel || Nabi Samwel, Palestine
Early Kingdoms Period
- Valley of Elah || Khirbet Qeiyafa, Palestine
- Oasis of Ein Gedi || Ein Gedi, Israel
- City of David & The Royal Tombs || Jerusalem, Israel
- Early Jerusalem & The First Temple || Jerusalem, Israel
- Cedar Groves of Lebanon || Becharre, Lebanon
- King Solomon’s Mines || Timna, Israel
- Land of Sheba || Several Locations, Ethiopia & Yemen
- Ancient Samaria || Sebastia, Israel
Later Kingdoms and Captivity Period
- Ancient Nineveh & Tomb of Jonah || Mosul, Iraq
- Elijah’s Cave || Haifa, ISrael
- Tomb of Isaiah || Jerusalem, Israel
- Elephantine Temple || Aswan, Egypt
- Tomb of Daniel || Shush, Iran
- Tomb of Ezekiel || Kefil, Iraq
- Tombs of Ester & Mordecai || Hamadan, Iran
- Tombs of the Minor Prophets || Several Locations, Israel
Revival and Roman Periods
- Tomb of Ezra || Al-Azair, Iraq
- Tombs of the Maccabees || Modi’in, Israel
- Later Jerusalem & The Second Temple || Jerusalem, Israel
- Architectural Legacy of Herod || Several Locations, Israel & Palestine
- Tombs of Hillel & Shammai || Safed/Meron, Israel
- Fortress of Masada || Arad, Israel
- Arch of Titus || Rome, Italy
- Betar Fortress || Battir, Palestine
- Dead Sea Scrolls Archaeological Site || Qumram, Palestine
Middle Eastern and Asian Diaspora
- Ancient Tiberias & Tomb of Akiva || Tiberias, Israel
- Tomb of Shimon bar Yohai || Safed/Meron, Israel
- Ben Ezra Synagogue & Cairo Geniza || Cairo, Egypt
- Central Synagogue of Aleppo || Aleppo, Syria
- Ruins of Atil || Samosdelka, Russia
- Paradesi Synagogue || Ernakulam, India
- Kaifeng Museum || Kaifeng, China
Sephardic Diaspora
- Tomb of Moses Maimonides || Tiberias, Israel
- Legacy of the Spanish Golden Age || Several Locations, Spain
- Plaza de Zocodover || Toledo, Spain
- Clifford’s Tower || York, England
- Jewish Museum of Istanbul || Istanbul, Turkey
- Jewish Museum of Thessalonika || Thessalonika, Greece
- Jewish Ghetto of Venice || Venice, Italy
- Great Synagogue of Florence || Florence, Italy
Ashkenazi Diaspora
- Rashi Shul Synagogue || Worms, Germany
- New Synagogue || Berlin, Germany
- Dohany Street Synagogue || Budapest, Hungary
- Staranova Synagogue || Prague, Czech Republic
- Cachmei Yeshiva of Lublin || Lublin, Poland
- Gravesite of Ba’al Shem Tov || Medzhybizh, Ukraine
- Odessa Museum of Jewish Heritage || Odessa, Ukraine
- Kenesa of Yevpatoria || Yevpatoria, Ukraine
New World Diaspora
- Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue Museum || Recife, Brazil
- Touro Synagogue || Newport, Rhode Island
- Kahal Kodesh Beth Elohim Synagogue || Charleston, South Carolina
- Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue || New York, New York
- Mikveh Israel Cemetery || Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Temple Emanuel || New York, New York
Jewish Enlightenment
- Home & Gravesite of Baruch Spinoza || Several Locations, Netherlands
- Rothschild Palace & Jewish Museum || Frankfurt, Germany
- The Mendelssohn Gravesites || Berlin, Germany
- Sholem Aleichem Home & Museum || Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
- Gravesite of Alfred Dreyfus || Paris, France
- Gravesite of Marc Chagall || Nice, France
- Mount Carmel & The Cemetery Belt || Glendale, New York
- Home of Peace Memorial Park || Los Angeles, California
The Holocaust
- House of the Wannsee Conference || Wannsee, Germany
- Anne Frank House || Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Pawiak Museum & Ghetto Memorial || Warsaw, Poland
- Danish Jewish Museum || Copenhagen, Denmark
- Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp || Osciecim, Poland
- Simon Wiesenthal Center || Los Angeles, California
- Yad Vashem Museum || Jerusalem, Israel
The Return to Zion
- British Library & Balfour Declaration || London, England
- Old Tel Aviv & Great Synagogue || Tel Aviv, Israel
- Degania Alef Kibbutz || Degania Alef, Israel
- Mount Herzl National Cemetery || Jerusalem, Israel
- Modern Jerusalem || Jerusalem, Israel
- Olympic Massacre Memorial || Munich, Germany
Documents, Artifacts & Museum Collections
- El Ghriba Synagogue & Torah || Djerba, Tunisia
- National Library & Leningrad Codex || St. Petersburg, Russia
- Jewish Theological Seminary Library || New York, New York
- Jewish Museum of New York || New York, New York
- Museums of Tel Aviv || Tel Aviv, Israel
- Israel Museum & Shrine of the Book || Jerusalem, Israel
