Living Torah Museum

1601 41st Street | also 4015 16th Avenue | Borough Park | built 1920

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

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2002
Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch opens the Living Torah Museum on 41st Street
The Living Torah Museum, founded and run by the rabbi and author Shaul Shimon Deutsch, is a set of Orthodox Jewish museums that opened in 2002. This address in Borough Park is the first location. A second branch in the Catskills town of Fallsburg runs in summer, and a third, in Lakewood, New Jersey, closed in 2014. In its first twelve years the museums drew about 600,000 visitors.
“…opened in 2002 and drew approximately 600,000 visitors in the first twelve years. The first location is at 1601 41st Street in Borough Park…”
Source: Wikipedia
2016
November
A stone tablet of the Ten Commandments leaves the museum after 11 years, sold for $850,000
From 2005 to 2016 the museum displayed the world's oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments. The tablet went to auction in November 2016 and sold for $850,000. The museum's other holdings include Biblical and Talmudic artifacts, antique Judaica and old Jewish books.
Source: Wikipedia

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