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Corner stone laid by Jan Smuts in 1934. The congregation was first established in Sea Point in 1926 at Monreith, Hall Road, the home of Mr and Mrs Gutman. [2] A meeting took place at their home to advance “representations of a number of the younger members of the Community for the purpose of electing a strong working Committee to go into the question of the proposed new Synagogue”. [2]
This is a list of properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places within the city limits of St. Louis, Missouri, north of Interstate 64 and west of Downtown St. Louis. For listings in Downtown St. Louis, see National Register of Historic Places listings in Downtown and Downtown West St. Louis.
The Marais Road Shul, formally known as the Green & Sea Point Hebrew Congregation, an Orthodox Jewish congregation on Marais Road, Sea Point that also serves the Green Point community. In 1994 it had the largest Jewish congregation in the Southern Hemisphere. [11] Sacred Heart, a Catholic church on Somerset Road & Napier Street
The United Hebrew Congregation formed on Erev Rosh Hashannah, the evening of September 29, 1837, when ten members rented a room in St. Louis for services.The location was either above a store called "Max’s Grocery and Restaurant" at Second and Spruce Streets, or an "R.A. Mack's" grocery store at 54 N. Front Street. [2]
By 1905 the Jews of St. Louis numbered about 40,000 in a total population of about 575,000. Today's Jewish population in the St. Louis area exceeds 60,000 in a metropolitan population of about 3,000,000 people. [6] St. Louis County, MO holds nearly all of Missouri's Jewish community. 7% of St. Louis County's population is Jewish.
Congregation Temple Israel is a Reform Jewish synagogue located at 1 Rabbi Alvan D. Rubin Drive, in Creve Coeur, St. Louis County, Missouri, in the United States. [1] [2] Constructing three different synagogue buildings during its history, the second synagogue, built in 1907, is a contributing property to the National Register of Historic Places-listing for the Holy Corners Historic District ...
It is the oldest Reform and largest congregation in the greater St. Louis area. In addition to religious services, the Shaare Emeth has a religious school, Shirlee Green Preschool, and two summer camps, Camp Micah and Camp Emeth. In 2016, the former Orthodox B’nai El and the Reform Shaare Emeth congregations merged.
The Missouri Historical Society was founded in St. Louis on August 11, 1866. [1] Founding members created the historical society "for the purpose of saving from oblivion the early history of the city and state". [2] [3]