Sunday, January 31, 2010

Mattencherry and the Jewish Quarter....

The Jewish Quarter was a 10-minute drive away from Fort Kochi - in a suburb called Mattencherry. There used to be a sizable population of Jews in Cochin but currently only 11 of them remained living there. The rest have returned to their motherland, Israel. The Jewish Synagoge is a regular tourist stop of the city. The streets where the Jewish community used to live are now lined by mostly tourist shops.

Just around the corner, the Kochi Museum is another spot worth visiting. Housed in an old Dutch mansion, the musuem had exhibits on the Rajas of Cochin until the independence of India.


the Jewish Synagouge..



















streets scenes in the Jewish Quarter..



the Cochin Museum..



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