Congregation Yetev Lev D'Satmar (Rodney Street)
152 Rodney Street | also 139 Williamsburg Street West | South Williamsburg | built 1968
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- 2020
New York's governor stops a planned 10,000-guest wedding at the Rodney Street Satmar synagogue
A whistleblower told authorities in October 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, that a wedding for a grandson of Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum would draw about 10,000 worshippers to the synagogue. Governor Andrew Cuomo directed that it could not go ahead, citing the order that capped gatherings at 50 people. A much smaller family event took place instead.
“Governor Andrew Cuomo directed that the wedding of the grandson of Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum could not proceed ... A much smaller event involving the Rabbi's family went ahead.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2025
The Rodney Street synagogue removes its galleries to fit bleachers for a growing congregation
The synagogue was built to replace the earlier main Satmar synagogue on Bedford Avenue, which had become too small for its growing membership, and it is now the main synagogue of followers of Zalman Teitelbaum. In the summer of 2025, because the community kept growing, work took down the galleries in the main hall to make room for bleachers.
“…in the summer of 2025 due to the growth of the community the synagogue went through major construction by taking down the gallerys in the main hall…”
Source: Wikipedia
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