School for Deaf and Mute (Dushanbe) School for Deaf and Mute (Dushanbe) The School for Deaf and Mute (Tajik: Мактаби кару гунгхо / Maktabi karu gungho) is a special art and social sciences school in Dushanbe for students with limited hearing and speaking ability. It was founded on January 17, 1975 when Tajikistan was apart of the Soviet Union. It is currently located on 44 Karaboyev Street, in Dushanbe. The school has 13 classrooms, a library, the director's office, offices for the director's assistants, and a computer lab. There are 15 teachers and a student body of 135. The school's current director is Rafik S. H.
Dushanbe Synagogue two thousand years, the building was of considerable historical significance. The ownership of the building was also disputed. The Jewish community reported that it had documentation of its original (pre-Soviet) ownership of the building and the purchase of the land on which the synagogue had been constructed. The Dushanbe municipal authorities argued, on the other hand, that the state owned the land and the building since it underwent nationalisation in 1952 by the Soviet authorities. Back in 2004, the Chief Rabbi of Central Asia, Rabbi Abraham Dovid Gurevich, raised the issue of antisemitism, hinting that the prospect of a synagogue