Stanton Street Synagogue
180 Stanton Street | Lower East Side | built 1913
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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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- 1913
Congregation Bnai Jacob Anshe Brzezan builds a tenement synagogue
Jewish immigrants from the Galician town of Brzezan, who had organized as a mutual aid society, built their synagogue in 1913 by incorporating two existing 1840s structures on a lot only 20 feet wide and 100 feet deep. The $10,000 stone and brick building held a basement study hall and a sanctuary with a central reader's platform.
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- 1952
The shrinking congregation merges with a second immigrant synagogue
As the Lower East Side's Jewish population fell after World War II, Congregation Bnai Jacob Anshei Brzezan merged in 1952 with Bnai Joseph Dugel Macheneh Ephraim, a joint congregation representing Polish-Jewish immigrants from the towns of Rymanow and Blazowa, a common strategy for surviving synagogues of the era.
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- 1964
Rabbi Joseph Singer begins a 38-year tenure at the synagogue
Rabbi Joseph Singer took over as spiritual leader in 1964, serving for 38 years for little pay while the congregation aged around him, ministering to former sanitation workers, bakers and rag vendors. His long tenure carried the shrinking synagogue through its most precarious decades.
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- 2002
A court settlement blocks the sale of the synagogue building
In 2000 Rabbi Singer moved to sell the synagogue to the National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped for $1.2 million. Congregants sued to stop the sale, and the two sides settled on October 29, 2002, preserving the building for worship. The fight drew new members and sparked a revival of the congregation.
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