Miaara Jewish Cemetery & Lazama Synagogue

مقبرة اليهود ميعارة / كنيس صلاة الأزامة

A Mellah cemetery of endless whitewashed tombs

⚠ Synagogue access varies

Hours

Cemetery open in daytime; synagogue around Sun-Thu 9:00-18:30, Sat 9:00-16:00

Tickets

No fixed fee; donation to the caretaker

Address

South side of the Mellah; the synagogue is in the lanes to the north-west

Marrakech had a Jewish community for centuries, and the Mellah still holds its traces. At Miaara, rows of whitewashed rectangular tombs stand on dry ground. At the gate the caretaker hands men a kippah. The nearby Lazama (Slat al-Azama) synagogue is a small building of rooms around a courtyard, and you go in when the caretaker opens it. It is the other Marrakech that souk-hopping tends to miss.