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Beth Israel
8 Feb, 2018The oldest surviving synagogue in the province of Saskatchewan. Beth Israel Synagogue, including its adjacent cemetery, is a municipal heritage site as designated by the Rural Municipality of Willow Creek on September 10, 2003. Located 15 miles up a dirt road from the community of Star City, Edenbridge was an agricultural colony established in 1906…
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Zeizmariai
8 Feb, 2018One of eight remaining old wooden synagogues in Lithuania. At one time over 9% of the population of Lithuania was Jewish. There were more than 500 Jewish synagogues and prayer houses. Because timber was plentiful, many of the synagogues were built of wood. The Zeizmariai Synagogue is typical of the old wooden synagogues. Though eight…
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Congregation Bnai Israel
8 Feb, 2018Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the synagogue of Congregation Bnai Israel was founded in 1919. It is one of the oldest synagogues in the Catskill Mountain region of New York. Jews began settling in the Catskills in the late 19th Century. Initially, they were drawn to the area to farm; however, they…
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Congregation Agudath Achim
8 Feb, 2018More than 100 years old, Agudas Achim’s building is maintained in pristine condition The first record of a Jewish person in Taunton was when Massachusetts was still a colony of England. Aaron Lopes, a Portuguese merchant, arrived in America in 1762 but was denied citizenship in Rhode Island. Lopes came to a Taunton court to…
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Congregation B’nai Isaac
8 Feb, 2018Although small in size this synagogue has endured for nearly 100 years. The August 18, 1917 edition of the Aberdeen, SD newspaper featured an article with the headline “HEBREWS PURCHASE LOCAL CHURCH”. Aberdeen’s small Jewish community had purchased the Wesleyan Methodist Church building, which it converted into a synagogue. The newspaper’s September 6th edition said…
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Adas Yoshuron
8 Feb, 2018Unaffiliated. All-inclusive. The heart of Mid-Coast Maine’s Jewish community since 1912 Often referred to in the press as “the Jewish Colony”, the small cadre of Jewish immigrants who settled in the Rockland area were well accepted and regarded. In 1879 the mostly Orthodox Jewish community held their first High Holy Day observance, a tradition that…
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Beth Israel Congregation
8 Feb, 2018The chance confluence of a sick Jewish child and a welcoming Gentile community led to the establishment of the Bath Jewish community and Beth Israel Congregation. A history of Beth Israel Congregation quoted from the Synagogue’s website: The story of Beth Israel Congregation rests on the energy and dedication of a few Maine Jews as…
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Temple Israel
8 Feb, 2018The oldest functioning synagogue west of the Mississippi and probably the highest elevation synagogue in the world. Once upon a time, in the shtetls of Russia and Lithuania, synagogues built of wood were common as borscht in Brooklyn. Time, termites, pogroms and various expressions of anti-Semitism have stamped out most of the wooden synagogues of…
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Tifereth Israel
8 Feb, 2018One of the last remnants of the Alliance Colony and one of few remaining 19th century wooden synagogues still in use in the United States. The Alliance Colony was a Jewish agricultural community that was founded in Alliance, New Jersey in 1882 by a group of 25 eastern European Jews. By the end of the…
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Garton Road Shul
8 Feb, 2018The smallest of the area’s existing historic, agricultural colony synagogues. Officially named Beth Israel, the simple wood-frame building, standing on land deeded by the Galiner family, is better known as the Garton Road Shul. Built in 1890, the shul was officially incorporated in 1898. Standing on a rural road in the midst of fields between…
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Woodbourne Shul
8 Feb, 2018Formally named B’nai Israel, the historic wooden shul is constructed in Carpenter Gothic style. “B’nai Israel Synagogue is a historic synagogue on NY 52 in Woodbourne, Town of Fallsburg, Sullivan County, New York. The first rabbi of the synagogue was David Isaac Godlin (1868-1943). It was built in 1920 and is a two story building…
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Congregation Beth Israel
8 Feb, 2018The oldest synagogue building in the USA continuously used by the same congregation. The completion of the Delaware & Hudson Canal was responsible for the growth of Honesdale in the early 1800s. The Beth Israel congregation was founded by ten German immigrant families fleeing the severe economic depression in Europe. Like many small town Jewish…
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East Hill Synagogue
8 Feb, 2018The synagogue’s architecture blends perfectly with the stately homes surrounding it. In an abundantly forested neighborhood in Englewood, New Jersey you can easily miss East Hill synagogue because it blends perfectly with the stately turn-of-the-century homes surrounding it. The congregation originally began as an inclement weather minyan for members of Congregation Ahavath Torah who lived…
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Temple Adas Israel
8 Feb, 2018Long Island’s oldest synagogue Quoted from the booklet prepared for Temple Adas Israel’s 120th Anniversary: Temple Adas Israel is a synagogue founded 120 years ago in Sag Harbor, New York-the cornerstone of Jewish religious and cultural life on Long Island’s East End. From its early days as Temple Mishcan Israel, Temple Adas Israel has been…
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Tours Category: Wooden Synagogues
Synagogues with wood structures and wood exteriors