Beth Israel Synagogue (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Beth Israel Synagogue
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Built: 1901
Architect: Douglass,Nathan
Architectural style: Romanesque
Governing body: Private
MPS: Cambridge MRA
NRHP Reference#: 82001921
Added to NRHP: April 13, 1982

Beth Israel Synagogue is an historic Jewish synagogue at 238 Columbia Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The synagogue was built in 1901 by Nathan Douglass. Congregation Anshai Sfard merged into it in 1957.[1] In 1962 Beth Israel and Temple Ashkenaz merged to form Temple Beth Shalom of Cambridge and the new congregation chose to use the Temple Ashkenaz building on Tremont Street in Cambridge.[2] The Beth Israel building, no longer used as a synagogue, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The former synagogue building currently houses condominium units.[3]

References

  1. ^ Life Magazine, June 24, 1957, Old Rite Unites Temples: Two Orthodox Synagogues Merge in Cambridge, Mass., p. 85
  2. ^ A Century of Shalom: An Exhibit on The History of the Jewish Community in Cambridge
  3. ^ http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=360440

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