Historically interesting as well as being one of very few synagogues in South Georgia serving several other communities.

Jewish merchants settled in many small Georgia towns before the Civil War, long before the 1896 founding of Fitzgerald. Before the end of the century Isadore Goldenberg, a Romanian immigrant, established a dry goods store in Fitzgerald. Soon a handful of other Jewish immigrants settled in Fitzgerald, also dry goods merchants. Jews in Fitzgerald region also played an important part in the area’s industrial growth, primarily related to textiles.

In the 1930s the Jews in and around Fitzgerald organized The Fitzgerald Hebrew Congregation. When the Methodist Episcopal Church building, built in 1906, became available in 1941 the congregation purchased the building and converted it into the synagogue which is used to this present day.

In recent years the Jewish community has shrunk, as have most small town Jewish communities in the United States. However, the remaining small congregation is close-knit, usually dining together once a month and continue Shabbat services. Many people, who were raised in Fitzgerald, but moved away, often return for Rosh Hashanah services which draw as many as 150 attendees.