Chevra Linas Hazedek Synagogue (Green Pasture Baptist Church)

1115 Ward Avenue | Soundview | built 1933

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

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1928
A Romanesque Revival synagogue goes up on Ward Avenue
The three-story building at 1115 Ward Avenue, home of the Chevra Linas Hazedek Synagogue of Harlem and the Bronx, dates from between 1928 and 1932. Its vernacular Romanesque Revival front is yellow brick with red brick and cast-stone trim, and seven round-arched stained-glass windows are set between wreathed cast-stone columns.
Source: Wikipedia
1979
The synagogue sells its building to the Green Pasture Baptist Church
In 1979 the Chevra Linas Hazedek congregation sold its Ward Avenue synagogue to the Green Pasture Baptist Church. The Baptist congregation has occupied the building ever since.
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2014
The former synagogue is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
In 2014 the former Chevra Linas Hazedek Synagogue of Harlem and the Bronx joined the National Register of Historic Places. The Green Pasture Baptist Church had been using the building since buying it in 1979.
“The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.”
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