Jodensavanne Archaeological Site: Jodensavanne Settlement and Cassipora Creek Cemetery World Heritage Site

Official name: Jodensavanne Archaeological Site: Jodensavanne Settlement and Cassipora Creek Cemetery | UNESCO
Country: Suriname | Map
Continent: South America
Location: 5.4311° Lat, -54.9826° Lon | Map
Code: 1680
Time Zone: America/Paramaribo (-03, -0300)
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Category: Cultural
Description: Inscribed 2023. Located on high ground on the densely forested banks of the Suriname River, the Jodensavanne Archaeological Site in northern Suriname is a serial property that illustrates early Jewish colonization attempts in the New World. The Jodensavanne Settlement, founded in the 1680s, includes the ruins of what is believed to be the earliest synagogue of architectural significance in the Americas, along with cemeteries, boat landing areas, and a military post. The Cassipora Creek Cemetery is the remnant of an older settlement founded in the 1650s. Located amidst Indigenous territory, the settlements were inhabited, owned, and governed by Jews who lived there together with free and enslaved persons of African and Indigenous descent. The settlements had the most extensive arrangement of privileges and immunities known in the early modern Jewish world.