Jodensavanne Archaeological Site

Things to do · Para, Suriname

The quiet savanna ruins of one of the earliest Jewish agricultural settlements in the Americas, founded on the Suriname River in the 1600s. Visitors walk among the brick foundations of the Beracha ve Shalom synagogue and cemeteries whose headstones carry Hebrew and Portuguese inscriptions. Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2023, the site is reached by road via the Carolina bridge south of Paramaribo.