Old Broadway Synagogue

13 Old Broadway | Manhattanville | built 1901

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

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1911
Morris Schiff incorporates a congregation on Old Broadway
Morris Schiff, a Polish immigrant living in Harlem, incorporates the congregation Chevra Talmud Torah Anshei Marovi. Its members are mostly Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants who arrived in the 1880s and moved up to Central Harlem. They first gather in storefronts and reportedly in the back room of a bar.
Source: Wikipedia
1924
The congregation builds a Gothic Revival synagogue
Architects Meisner and Uffner design a Gothic Revival synagogue on Old Broadway, built in 1923 and 1924. It stands on the site of a house the congregation bought and tore down soon afterward to make room for it.
Source: Wikipedia
1997
Rabbi Jacob Kret ends 47 years as the congregation's rabbi
Jacob Kret serves as rabbi of the Old Broadway congregation from 1950 until 1997, a tenure of 47 years. The congregation was incorporated in 1911 as Chevra Talmud Torah Anshei Marovi.
Source: Wikipedia
2002
January 11
The synagogue joins the National Register of Historic Places
The synagogue building, completed in 1923, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 11, 2002. In 2003 the blue and green central windows, covered with brick in the 1960s, are restored.
Source: Wikipedia

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