Great Synagogue of Rome and the Jewish Museum historical timeline

A community 2,200 years old, shut in a ghetto for three centuries, emancipated in the nineteenth, which then built its greatest synagogue on the ground of its own confinement.

Chronology

1. 2nd century BCE — the first Jewish settlements in Rome, from which the museum's route begins; the Community has lived in the city continuously for 2,200 years.
2. 1492 — the arrival of the Jews expelled from Spain, from at least which time the Spanish rite has been officiated in Rome.
3. 1555–1870 — the period of the Ghetto, to which the works displayed in the Museum mainly date.
4. 1870 — with the breach of Porta Pia the Italian Army takes Rome; the city is incorporated into the Kingdom of Italy and the temporal power of the popes ends.
5. 19th century — the Jews achieve full emancipation and equality of civil rights, and the Communities can at last erect monumental synagogues.
6. 1888 — the master plan under which the area of the former ghetto is demolished and cleared.
7. End of the 19th century — the Community, wishing to replace the Cinque Scole with a monumental Temple, decides to reserve an oratory for the Spanish rite; the competition for the new synagogue is won by Osvaldo Armanni and Vincenzo Costa.
8. 1904 — the Tempio Maggiore is inaugurated, surmounted by a dome on a square base clad in aluminium.
9. 1932 — the Spanish Temple is placed in the same monumental building.
10. 1948 — it is embellished with the marble furnishings of the Cinque Scole.
11. 1960 — from this year the Museum displays its treasures in a single room.
12. 2005 — a new display is inaugurated, covering 700 square metres in seven rooms.

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