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One of Chicago’s oldest Jewish congregations.

Founded in 1867, Temple Sholom is one of Chicago’s oldest synagogues. There were already synagogues in the city but they were on Chicago’s south side. Temple Sholom’s founders saw the need for a much more conveniently located synagogue for the north side. Shortly after the Civil War the congregation leased the site of its first synagogue building which was destroyed in Chicago’s great fire of 1871. After being located in interim locations, the congregation acquired its current location in the 1920s.
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#The current building’s design began as a 1921 assignment given to three students at the School of Architecture at the Armour Institute (now the Illinois Institute of Technology). By 1928, with the assistance of professional architects Charles Hodgson of Chicago and Charles A. Coolidge of Boston, the Byzantine Revival and Moorish Revival structure was completed. The western wall of the 1,350 seat sanctuary was mounted on wheels so that it could be moved, opening the room into the adjoining social hall almost doubling the capacity.

In 1972, Israeli artist Nehemia Azaz was commissioned to create a set of five stained glass windows representing selections from Job, Proverbs, Psalms, Ezra and Nehemiah.

Later, in 1996 Leon Golub was given a commission to design a set of stained glass windows for Temple Sholom in Chicago, the four windows depict the life of Joseph. These would be the only stained glass windows Leon Golub ever did. They were fabricated in New York by Victor Rothman and Gene Mallard.#