Hanukkah

Hanukkah commemorates the miraculous reconsecration of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Maccabees in 164 B.C.E, following their victory over the Syrian-Greek armies of Antiochus IV Epiphanes. The main feature of the festival is the lighting at home of an additional light of the Hanukkah lamp on each of the eight days of the festival (25 Kislev - 2 Tevet). More

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Hanukkah lamp decorated with gates and arabesques Morocco 17th-18th century	Hanukkah lamp adorned with three demonic figures Fez, Morocco 18th century	Hanukkah lamp adorned with rows of arched pointed windows Sefrou, Morocco 19th century	Hanukkah lamp adorned with row of arched pointed windows, and birds Morocco 18th century	Small Hanukkah lamp Algiers (?), Algeria 19th century
Hanukkah lamp adorned with row of gates, foliage and Hamsah Algiers, Algeria 18th century