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The Knesset Eliyahoo also Knesset Eliyahu is an 1885 Orthodox synagogue in Fort (area) in downtown Mumbai. It was built by Jacob Elias Sassoon and his brothers to commemorate their father and is run by the Jacob Sassoon Trust.In 1985 the President of India Giani Zail Singh visited to honor the centennial of the building of the synagogue. The Indian Post Office issued a stamp in honor of the centennial.Until the November 2008 Mumbai attacks services were led by Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg.

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