Located just outside the royal palace in Fes El Jadid, the Mellah is considered the oldest Jewish quarter in Morocco. He welcomed the Jews nationals who fled the Spanish Inquisition. It was established, according to historians, in 1438 in the old Kasbah of Syrian archers Sultan. Deserted by most of the Jewish families who emigrated Fez, the mellah today is inhabited by Muslim families. The area still keeps the architecture and borrows the Jewish community that lived there for centuries. It still houses a synagogue and a Jewish cemetery.
The neighborhood Mellah
Fès Jdid