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Guided Tours

We offer various tours to learn about the Jewish presence in Mexico City. Our tours are meaningful experiences informed by testimonies from people who lived in the places we visit, as well as family photographs, Yiddish newspaper advertisements, and other documents that we share with visitors.

All tours are on foot, starting from a set point depending on the chosen route.

Regular Visits
In Spanish

The Jewish Immigrants' Neighborhood

2nd Sunday of each month

10 am. Whoever is there

Duration: 2 hours.

Cost: 250 pesos per person.

Meeting point: Justo Sierra 71, Historic Center.

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This is a fascinating journey into the past of Jewish immigrants who arrived in Mexico nearly a hundred years ago and settled in streets near the old La Merced market in the Historic Center of Mexico City. Ancient neighborhoods provided them shelter. In their rooms, they recreated age-old customs and traditions, studied, prayed, set up tailoring workshops, opened Jewish grocery stores, kosher butcher shops, and European-style bakeries that did not exist before their arrival. We will see the places where the midwife, the mohel, the shohet, the rabbi, and the cook lived, among many others. We will visit two beautiful synagogues: Monte Sinaí, the first in Mexico, inaugurated in 1923 by the Damascus community (which has restricted visits to its interior since October 7), and Nidje Israel, the Historic Synagogue, founded in 1941 as the first Ashkenazi synagogue. Additionally, we will enter two neighborhoods full of stories and walk through streets to see many sites related to the everyday life of immigrants. Meeting point: Justo Sierra 71, Historic Center.

The Synagogue and Its Symbols

3rd Sunday of every month

11 am. Whoever is there

Duration: 45 min. approx.

Cost: 90 pesos per person.

Meeting point: Justo Sierra 71, Historic Center.

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We invite you to discover this unique space that transports us to a corner of Eastern Europe just a few blocks from the Zócalo. It is an opportunity to learn about its details, history, symbols, and architecture, guided by experts who know and love this place.

Regular Visits
In English

The Jewish Immigrants' Neighborhood

Every Monday

10 a.m.

Duration: 2 hours

Cost: $50 USD or 1000 pesos per person.

Meeting point: Justo Sierra 71, Historic Center.

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This is a fascinating journey into the past of Jewish immigrants who arrived in Mexico nearly a hundred years ago and settled in streets near the old La Merced market in the Historic Center of Mexico City. Ancient neighborhoods provided them with shelter. In their rooms, they recreated age-old customs and traditions, studied, prayed, set up tailoring workshops, opened Jewish grocery stores, kosher butcher shops, and European-style bakeries that did not exist before their arrival. We will see the places where the midwife, the mohel, the shohet, the rabbi, and the cook lived, among many others. We will visit two beautiful synagogues: Monte Sinaí, the first in Mexico, inaugurated in 1923 by the Damascus community (which has restricted visits to its interior since October 7), and Nidje Israel, the Historic Synagogue, founded in 1941 as the first Ashkenazi synagogue. Additionally, we will enter two neighborhoods full of stories and walk through streets to see many sites related to the everyday life of immigrants.

Private Visits

Take a look at the options we have for you.

The Synagogue and its Symbols

Come learn every detail, including stories, anecdotes, and symbols of this beautiful place, as well as Jewish ritual objects that help us better understand Jewish practice.

Inquisition and the Jewish Quarter

A tour that covers the Jewish presence from colonial times to the lives of the Jewish immigrants who arrived at the beginning of the 20th century and founded the community.

Syrian Jews in Colonia Roma

This is a tour of the streets of the beautiful Roma neighborhood, which was inhabited by Syrian Jews from Aleppo and Damascus beginning in the 1930s.

The Jewish Immigrants' Neighborhood

A fascinating tour through the streets of old Mexico City, where the voices of the Jewish immigrants who lived there 100 years ago still echo.

The Jews in the times of the Colony and the Inquisition

We'll tour the historic Plaza de Santo Domingo and the Inquisition building to learn the stories of crypto-Jews who were unable to live their Judaism freely.

The city of palaces from the Jewish point of view

We'll walk the streets of the most elegant area of the Historic Center to learn the stories of the Eastern European Jews who arrived during the time of Porfirio Díaz.

Conoce a nuestros guías

Monica Unikel Fasja

Mónica

Abigail Jottar Sanabria

Abigail

Vania Martínez Flores

Vania

Gaby Goldin

Gaby

Luis Sokol

Luis

David Calderon Zonana

David

Joss Hernández

Joss

Schedule

Sunday to Friday from 10 am to 5 pm

Closed on Saturdays and Jewish holidays.

 

FREE ADMISSION

 

Address

Justo Sierra 71, Historic Center,

Mexico City

Nearest metro: Zócalo

Metrobús: People's Theater

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