Hom ha proposat que una de les sinagogues de Tàrrega podia haver estat situada a l'extrem sud de la vila, molt a prop del riu Ondarà, al costat del portal conegut amb el nom de Sant Agustí. L'any 1997, la construcció d'un edifici en un terreny anomenat Molí del Codina oferí la possibilitat de realitzar una intervenció arqueològica amb la intenció de documentar les restes de la muralla medieval i localitzar, en aquell sector, l'estructura d'una de les sinagogues que hi hagué a la vila a l'edat mitjana. L'excavació ha revelat l'existència d'un edifici quasi rectangular construït entre els segles XIII i la primeria del XIV. Els autors exposen la possibilitat que les restes arqueològiques corresponguin a la sinagoga de l'època en què l'aljama ja estava constituïda, però abans que els seus membres s'agrupessin en un barri separat.The archaeological site of
Molí del Codina in Tàrrega as a possible location of the 14th-century
synagogue
For some years now, several researchers, on various grounds, have proposed
that one of the synagogues of Tàrrega could have been located at the southern
end of the town, very near the River Ondara, beside the gate known as Saint
Augustine's Gate.
In 1997, the construction of a building on a plot of land known as Molí del
Codina made it possible for an emergency archaeological operation to be carried
out in order to document, on the one hand, the remains of the ancient
medieval wall and, also, to locate within the same sector the structure corresponding
to one of the town's synagogues during the Middle Ages. The excavation has revealed some elements belonging to an old oil press dating from the
end of the 18th century, some structurl remains of a tannery dating from 16th-
17th century, as well as an almost rectangular building constructed between
the 13th and early 14th century. From the evidence at their disposal, the authors
put forward the possibility that the archaeological remains on this final level
correspond to the original synagogue, dating from the time when the local
Jewish community or aljama was already constituted, but before its members
were gathered together into a separate district of their own