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The Magain Shalome Synagogue was the cornerstone of a one time Jewish community in Karachi, Pakistan. It was built in 1893 by Shalome Solomon Umerdekar and his son Gershone Solomon, (other accounts suggest that it was built by Solomon David, a surveyor for the Karachi Municipality and his wife Sheeoolabai, although these may be different names for the same people).
The synagogue soon became the center of a small but vibrant Jewish community, one of whose leaders, Abraham Reuben, became a councilor on the city corporation in 1936. In the aftermath of the creation of Israel in 1948, a mob entered and desecrated the Holy Ark and some Torah scrolls as well as committing other acts of vandalism.[1] In the 1980's, it was torn down to make way for a mini-mall (Madiha Square).
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