High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Wadi Qelt Synagogue, located in Wadi Qelt south of Jericho, is the oldest known synagogue that has ever been found. It dates from between 70 and 50 BCE, and was built as part of a Maccabean royal winter palace complex in the warm desert oasis of Jericho.The synagogue was discovered by a dig led by Ehud Netzer.The synagogue was a modest building of stone and sun-baked brick. It included a ritual bath and a small courtyard surrounded by seven or eight rooms with a rectangular main hall measuring 53 by 37 feet. The hall was bordered by a colonnade the platform of which was nearly two feet above the floor of the nave. This provided seating for nearly 70 people. In the northeastern corner, Netzer found a niche that may have served as a Torah Ark.

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