City overview
The Turks & Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory of about forty islands and cays at the southeastern end of the Bahamian chain, best known for Grace Bay Beach on Providenciales and for the reef that runs the length of the archipelago. Providenciales holds almost all of the country's resorts, restaurants and shopping, while Grand Turk, North, Middle and South Caicos and Salt Cay stay quiet and largely undeveloped. Jewish life in the country is young and centres entirely on Providenciales: Chabad of Turks & Caicos Islands, founded by Rabbi Shmulik and Chaya Berkowitz at the end of 2019, is the only Jewish congregation anywhere in the islands. The resident community is small and expatriate, and it swells through the winter season with second-home owners and visitors. Kosher food on the island is limited but real, and everything Jewish sits within the Grace Bay area.
Grand Turk Lighthouse
Turks & Caicos · $3 per person, creditable against shop purchases
The country's only lighthouse, a cast-iron tower prefabricated in England and raised on the cliffs at the northern tip of Grand Turk in 1852.
Time needed
30 to 45 minutes
Tips
The tower is no longer operational and the interior is closed, but the grounds, clifftop path and the restored lightkeeper's house, now a snack and gift shop, are open. Ruins of a 1950s US Navy base sit nearby and wild donkeys wander the site. Too far from Cockburn Town to walk, so take a taxi, scooter or rental car.
Neighborhood
North Grand Turk
Activity providers
Kosher map of Turks & Caicos
Pick a place on the map or search an address or hotel to see what is kosher around it.