The sole remaining synagogue in an area of Winnipeg once known as New Jerusalem.

In the 1920s there were at least twenty five synagogues in Winnipeg, eighteen of these in the North End of the city where a majority of Jews lived at the time. The Ashkenazi Synagogue, now the oldest synagogue in Winnipeg, is the only synagogue remaining in an area once dubbed New Jerusalem. The Congregation was founded in 1922. A year later they bought an old church at the present synagogue building’s location. In 1948 it was destroyed by fire and subsequently re-built within a year.

As the Jewish population has aged and shifted to other parts of the city, the longevity of the Ashkenazi Synagogue is an achievement within itself. Against all odds it has survived in a neighborhood that has been essentially devoid of Jewish population for decades.