3D print the Ben Ezra Synagogue
A free, printable model of the synagogue, with the surrounding streets and buildings of Old Cairo around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 3 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
3 mm tall on a 160 mm print
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Walls and roofline
The synagogue is a low building rather than a tall silhouette. Print it larger, or use Full detail, and keep layers at 0.12–0.16 mm so the wall surfaces stay clean.
- One piece with the ground
The Ben Ezra Synagogue is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Ben Ezra Synagogue takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the Ben Ezra Synagogue
The Ben Ezra Synagogue, in the Fustat district of Old Cairo, is a former synagogue and Jewish congregation. Local folklore places it on the spot where the baby Moses was found. With Egypt's Jewish community much reduced, the building is no longer active and serves largely as a tourism site and Jewish museum. Its founding date is unknown, though documents from its geniza suggest it is older than 882 CE, and probably pre-Islamic; an 882 sale of a church and land to a group of Jews, once taken as its origin, is linked by modern scholars to a rival synagogue.
At least three buildings have stood on the site over its long history. The original was torn down around 1012 on the order of the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim, and a replacement went up in the 1025–1040 period. A fire set on purpose in 1168 burned much of Fustat; Maimonides settled in the city that year, worshipped at Ben Ezra and remained until he died in 1204. The synagogue was repaired in 1488, and the present building was put up in the 1890s.
The geniza, a store room for worn-out writings, came to light in the 19th century and held manuscripts in Hebrew, Aramaic and Judeo-Arabic, among other languages. Some 400,000 items, the Cairo Geniza, went to the University of Cambridge at the urging of Solomon Schechter and are divided among several academic libraries, with most at Cambridge University Library. A courtyard behind the buildings holds the Well of Moses.
About this model
The Ben Ezra Synagogue is one of more than 4,400 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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