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Congregation Sherith Israel (transliterated from Hebrew as "loyal remnant of Israel") is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in San Francisco, California, in the United States. Founded in 1851 during California’s Gold Rush period , it is one of the oldest synagogues in the United States .
Congregation Beth Israel was founded as an Orthodox synagogue [7]: 188 in San Francisco in 1860, and subsequently became "the first conservative congregation west of Chicago". [ 2 ] [ 6 ] : 62 From 1860 to 1874 the congregation worshiped in a leased building on Sutter Street between Dupont and Stockton Streets.
During the Gold Rush in 1849, a small group of Jews held the first High Holy Days services in a tent in San Francisco; it was the first Jewish service on the West Coast of the United States. [1] This group of traders and merchants founded Congregation Emanu-El sometime in 1850, and its charter was issued in April, 1851.
Congregation Emanu-El on Sutter Street (1866–1926), San Francisco. The history of the Jews in San Francisco began with the California Gold Rush in the second half of the 19th-century. The San Francisco Bay Area has the fourth largest Jewish population in the U.S. [1] behind the New York area, southeast Florida and metropolitan Los Angeles.
The Presidio of San Francisco was established for the military, while Mission San Francisco de Asís began the cultural and religious conversion of some 10,000 Ohlone who lived in the area. [3] The mission became known as Mission Dolores, because of its nearness to a creek named after Our Lady of Sorrows .
"When the slave power predominates, religion is nominal. There is no life in it. It is the hard-working laboring man who builds the church, the school house, the orphan asylum, not the slaveholder, as a general rule. Religion flourishes in a slave state only in proportion to its intimacy with a free state, or as it is adjacent to it."
The number of Methodist church members grew from 58,000 in 1790 to 258,000 in 1820 and 1,661,000 in 1860. Over 70 years, Methodist membership grew by a factor of 28.6 times when the total national population grew by a factor of eight times.
San Francisco pastor William Anderson Scott opened two Presbyterian schools in his churches in the third quarter of the 19th century, the second of which was the San Francisco Theological Seminary. In 1872, SFTS began with four professors and four students meeting for instruction at the Presbyterian City College and Calvary Presbyterian Church ...