The Jewish Community of Silves appears as a recognized institution confirmed by royal authority throughout the fourteenth century, with records of confirmations of privileges in 1359, 1366, and 1396. This sequence indicates formal continuity of the community as a collective body with its own legal status.

In the fifteenth century, Jewish presence is closely linked to the fiscal and administrative functioning of the city. On 23 April 1474, a petition records Isaac Alferce, customs receiver of Silves, demanding the payment of the tithe on olive oil, with a dispute over where the tax should be delivered and naming the parties involved, Fernam de San Lucar, Sem Tob Abroz, and the royal finance overseer Rui Valente. On 12 March 1482, a letter confirms Pero Feio as clerk of the toll office and also of the Jewish and Muslim communities of the city, a clear sign that these communal bodies maintained their own records and administrative routines within everyday fiscal life.

The judiaria of Silves is described in historiography as an intramural space associated with the sector of the Porta de Loulé, the main entrance to the former medina. Urban analysis helps situate the quarter. From the Porta da Almedina, also known as the Porta de Loulé, originated the former Rua Direita, today Rua da Sé, which structured circulation within the medieval town. In a doctoral thesis on the Cathedral of Silves, the judiaria is placed within the walls, near Rua das Portas de Loulé, and the same work describes a street that “led to the judiaria”, connecting the Porta da Vila to the Porta de Loulé, reinforcing the anchoring of the Jewish quarter along the southern corridor of the medieval nucleus. In heritage interpretation materials, Rua da Porta de Loulé is presented as the entrance to the area that, from the definitive Christian reconquest until the end of the fifteenth century, corresponded to the former Jewish quarter.