Congregation Ahavas Israel
108 Noble Street | Greenpoint | built 1895
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1895
A two-story Romanesque Revival synagogue stands at 108 Noble Street by about 1895
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1982 Greenpoint Historic District report describes 108 Noble Street as a two-story brick synagogue in the Romanesque Revival style, built about 1895. It has a wide central entrance with a segmental arch and three round-arched windows on the second floor. By the time of the report the cornice had been removed and a stepped parapet added, and Congregation Ahawath Israel of Greenpoint occupied it.
- 1898
Ahavas Israel merges with Temple Beth El in 1898
Ahavas Israel was incorporated in 1893 by German-Jewish emigres as an Orthodox congregation. In 1898 it merged with Temple Beth El, a German-Jewish Reform synagogue, according to the Brooklyn Jewish Historical Initiative. The merged congregation laid the cornerstone of its West Building in 1903.
Source: brooklynjewish.org
- 1960
The Hebrew Education Alliance of Greenpoint merges into Ahavas Israel after a 1960 fire
Early in the 1900s the Hebrew Education Alliance of Greenpoint built a synagogue on Manhattan Avenue, the neighborhood's main commercial street. After fire destroyed it in 1960, the alliance joined Ahavas Israel in a merger carried out under an executive order issued by Governor Nelson Rockefeller, according to the Brooklyn Jewish Historical Initiative. Today's congregation is the product of a merger of three of Greenpoint's five synagogues.
Source: brooklynjewish.org
- 2022
Ahavas Israel is Greenpoint's only remaining Jewish congregation, in a neighborhood that once had five synagogues
A 2022 profile by the Brooklyn Jewish Historical Initiative calls the congregation, then 120 years old, the only one left in a neighborhood that once supported five synagogues. It holds Sabbath and holiday services, each followed by a communal meal, and organizes classes by visiting rabbis and scholars. It also hosts Hanukkah parties and other communal events.
Source: brooklynjewish.org
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