Podhajcer Shul

108 East 1st Street | East Village | built 1910

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1841
George H. Rofs builds a row house at 108 East 1st Street
Around 1840-41, George H. Rofs builds a three-story brick row house at 108 East 1st Street that mixes Romanesque and Gothic details, including four pilasters, a rounded entrance arch, and arched upper windows beneath a stepped pediment. A rear building added in 1853 is later demolished.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1926
Congregation Masas Benjamin Podhajce buys the building for a synagogue
Congregation Masas Benjamin Podhajce, founded in 1895 by Jewish immigrants from Podhajce in Austrian Galicia, purchases and consecrates the building as a synagogue in 1926. The facade's stone arch is inscribed "Beth HaKnesset Ansche Podhajce," or Synagogue of the People of Podhajce, with capitals carved to resemble Torah scrolls. Through the 1920s the congregation shares the space with a second Galician congregation, Rodeph Shalom Independent Podhajce.
Source: Wikipedia
1995
The former synagogue becomes a visual and performing arts venue
After standing empty from 1985 to 1990 and briefly housing Congregation Beth Yitzchoch, the former Podhajcer synagogue is converted into a visual and performing arts venue in 1995. It becomes a private residence around 2000, though the facade still bears its Star of David and the stone inscription naming the Synagogue of the People of Podhajce.
Source: Wikipedia

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