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The Sofia Synagogue (Bulgarian: Софийска синагога Sofiyska sinagoga) is the largest synagogue in Southeastern Europe one of two functioning in Bulgaria (with the one in Plovdiv) and the third-largest in Europe.Constructed for the needs of the Bulgarian capital Sofia’s mainly Sephardic Jewish community after a project by the Austrian architect Friedrich Grünanger it resembles the old Moorish Leopoldstädter Tempel in Vienna and was officially opened on 9 September 1909 in the presence of Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria.
