Synagogues were not churches. During the Second Temple period they were meeting places, places of study and Torah reading. After the destruction of the Second Temple they gradually became places of meeting, study and ceremony. During Christs time they were not ceremonial places. As a I said the oldest KNOWN synagogue was in use 30-50 years before the birth of Christ. Jews in Babylon, Alexandria and throughout the Roman Empire, during the Second Temple period, certainly celebrated Holy Days, read and studied Torah in their Synagogues. But there was only one Temple and it was the only place that rituals outlined in the Old Testament took place.
>> Synagogues were not churches. <<
No shit, Sherlock. I’m done with you and your condescension.