Park Slope Jewish Center
1320 8th Avenue | also 435 14th Street, 1314 8th Avenue | Park Slope | built 1927
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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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- 1925
Congregation B'nai Jacob builds a brick synagogue with a rose window and a domed skylight on Eighth Avenue
The building at 1320 Eighth Avenue was put up in 1925 as the home of the Orthodox Congregation B'nai Jacob. It is a brick structure of two and a half stories that mixes Romanesque and Baroque elements. Its features include a Star of David in the exterior masonry, a rose window and a domed skylight.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1942
The congregation takes the name B'nai Jacob - Tifereth Israel
The congregation at 1320 Eighth Avenue, which had begun around 1915, was known as Congregation B'nai Jacob - Tifereth Israel from 1942 until 1960. It is now the Park Slope Jewish Center, an egalitarian Conservative synagogue in South Slope.
“Established as a congregation in c. 1915, from 1942 to 1960 they were known as Congregation B'nai Jacob - Tifereth Israel.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2002
The synagogue is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The Park Slope Jewish Center's building at 1320 Eighth Avenue went onto the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. The brick synagogue dates to 1925, when it was built for the Orthodox Congregation B'nai Jacob.
“The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2015
A $1.75 million renovation and expansion of the synagogue is completed
The Park Slope Jewish Center finished a renovation and expansion that cost $1.75 million in 2015. Rabbi Carie Carter has led the congregation since 2000.
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
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