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Shaare Tefila

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ64854368 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shaare Tefila or Shaarei/Shaarey Tfiloh/Tphiloh (Hebrew: שַׁעֲרֵי תְפִלָה "Gates of Prayer") may refer to the following synagogues:

Shaaré Tefila Synagogue (Alexandria, Egypt)

Shaarei Tfiloh Synagogue (Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.)

Shaarey Tphiloh (Portland, Maine, U.S.)

Temple Shaaray Tefila (Manhattan, New York, U.S.)

Congregation Shaaray Tefila (Lawrence, New York, U.S.)

Shaare Tefila Congregation (Olney, Maryland, U.S.), target of antisemitic vandalism that became the subject of the decision in Shaare Tefila Congregation v.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Shaare Tefila” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Shaare, Tefila and Wikimedia.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 69-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Shaare, Tefila and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Shaare Tefila”, the useful work is to connect “wikimedia disambiguation page” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q64854368. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Shaare Tefila” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.