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Top 9 sights in Mellita

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   El Ghriba Synagogue

   A synagogue on Djerba whose community traces itself to the destruction of the Temple in 586 BC, and which claims to be the oldest in Africa. Jews from across the region come on pilgrimage each spring; it has twice been attacked in this century.

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   Yeshiva Dighet

   A synagogue and religious school in the village of Er Riadh on Djerba, closed in the 1970s as the community shrank. The village was the smaller of the island's two Jewish quarters.

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   Mosque of the Turks

   An old mosque in the middle of Houmt Souk, named for the Ottoman soldiers who built it, with a squat minaret and whitewashed domes in the island's characteristic manner.

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   Gigthis

   A Punic and Roman port on the mainland gulf facing Djerba, which began as a Phoenician trading post, passed to the Numidian kings and became a Roman municipium. Its forum and baths are excavated.

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   Zarzis Synagogue

   A synagogue of 1905 in the coastal town of Zarzis, built when about a thousand Jews lived there. It was burned by arson in 1982, destroying the building and its Torah scrolls, and the story is part of why southern Tunisia's Jewish community is now confined to Djerba.

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   Synagogue of the Kohanim of Djirt

   An Orthodox synagogue in Hara Kbira, the larger of Djerba's Jewish quarters on the edge of Houmt Souk. The island's Jewish heritage was added to the World Heritage list in 2023.

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   Meninx

   The ancient capital of Djerba on its southeastern shore, spread two kilometres along the coast with part of it now under water. It grew rich on purple dye extracted from murex shells, whose crushed remains still litter the site.

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   Mosque of the Strangers

   A mosque in Houmt Souk on the Tunisian island of Djerba. Also called the Mosque of the Baraniya, it is among the town's principal places of prayer.

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   Tlakin Mosque

   A mosque at Guellala on Djerba, one of the island's old sanctuaries in the Ibadi tradition — low, whitewashed and windowless, built to the plain pattern the sect favoured.

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