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It is the oldest Florida synagogue building still standing. [5] It is now the Ocala Bible Chapel, a Christian congregation. First Congregation Sons of Israel is the oldest synagogue in “The Nation's Oldest City”, St. Augustine, Florida. The congregation was chartered in 1908.
The Touro Synagogue or Congregation Jeshuat Israel (Hebrew: קהל קדוש ישועת ישראל) is a synagogue built in 1763 in Newport, Rhode Island.As the only surviving synagogue building in the U.S. dating to the colonial era, it is the oldest synagogue building still standing in the United States and North America.
The Congregation Shearith Israel (Hebrew: קהילת שארית ישראל, romanized: Kehilat She'arit Yisra'el, lit. 'Congregation Remnant of Israel'), often called The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 2 West 70th Street, at Central Park West, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States.
The Delos Synagogue, a Samaritan synagogue on the island of Delos, if proven to be a synagogue, would be the oldest synagogue known outside the Middle East, dates from at 150-128 BC, or earlier. The Kahal Shalom Synagogue on Rhodes (1577) is the oldest surviving synagogue building in Greece.
Congregation B'nai Israel, Bridgeport; Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek, Chester; Congregation Knesseth Israel, Ellington; Congregation Ahavath Achim, Fairfield; Congregation Mishkan Israel, Hamden
The congregation traces its history from 1740. [1] Mikveh Israel is a Spanish and Portuguese congregation that follows the rite of the Amsterdam esnoga. It is the oldest synagogue in Philadelphia, and the longest running in the United States. The congregation moved to its current building at 44 North Fourth Street in 1976.
The congregation was founded in 1796 by Spanish and Portuguese Sephardic Jews who had come to the Caribbean Basin to finance trade between Europe and the New World. [1] The building was constructed in 1833, and is the second oldest synagogue in the United States (after Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island built in 1763).
Temple Ohabei Shalom (Hebrew: מקדש אוהבי שלום) is a Reform Jewish synagogue located at 1187 Beacon Street, in Brookline, suburban Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. Organized in 1842 with membership mainly of German Jews , it is the oldest Jewish congregation in Massachusetts and the third oldest in New England ...