Pod Roșu Synagogue
The Pod Roșu Synagogue was a synagogue in Iași, Romania, in the neighborhood, during the 19th and 20th centuries. Cucu Street (under that name because of the sales of fowl which took place in a nearby market) was formerly called Sinagogilor Street for the many synagogues that were there (there were as many as 132 at one point), and the Pod Roșu Synagogue was built in a nearby neighborhood under the same name. Pod Roșu means "Red Bridge" in Romanian. History The Pod Roșu Synagogue was the second major synagogue to be built in Iași following the building of the Great Synagogue in Iași in 1671. In 1808, the Apter Rav, Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heschel moved to Iași to found a Chassidic community there (he was to leave only a few years thereafter). As the Great Synagogue (then called the Schulhof) prayed in Nussach Ashkenaz, the intended synagogue was to pray in Nussach Sephard and Nussach Ari. Despite the synagogue no longer standing, it is still recalled today as one of the major synagogues in Iași. The synagogue was built 1810, and continued to pray in the Chassidic Nussach after the departure of the Rebbe of Apt. The Apter Rebbe