CULTURE | Jewish sites in Karachi in disrepair
The HinduPublished : Aug 05, 2023 14:42 IST - 4 MINS READ Karachi, Pakistan’s most populous city, is quickly turning into a concrete jungle with town planners and researchers scrambling to save fragments of its pristine colonial past. Everyone who is supposed to be guarding heritage, doesn’t seem to desire so.” Jewish architect Somake behind key Karachi buildings Karachi’s Jewish heritage is intrinsically linked with architect Moses Somake, who was born in 1875 in Lahore and passed away on in 1947 in London. Yasmeen Lari says Somake designed quite a few buildings across Karachi, most notably the Mules Mansion, BVS Parsi High School, Flagstaff House, Edward House, and the Goan Association Hall. “When I was setting up archives for the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, I found papers which suggested Somake designed a mosque to be constructed here, but it was never built,” Lari said. Surviving synagogue ‘hard to spot’ Present-day Karachi is overwhelmingly Muslim, but the city boasted a much more diverse population and a vibrant Jewish community before Pakistan was formed in 1947.
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