Mosholu Jewish Center

3044 Hull Avenue | Norwood | built 1930

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

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1927
The Mosholu Jewish Center is founded as an Orthodox synagogue and community center
The Mosholu Jewish Center was founded in 1927 as an Orthodox Jewish congregation, serving Norwood as both a synagogue and a community center. Its home at 3044 Hull Avenue is a Neo-Renaissance building.
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1947
Rabbi Herschel Schacter takes the pulpit and leads the congregation for 52 years, until it closes
Rabbi Herschel Schacter became leader of the Mosholu Jewish Center in 1947 and remained its rabbi until the synagogue shut in 1999. The closing came as the Jewish population of the Bronx declined.
“Rabbi Herschel Schacter led the congregation from 1947 to its 1999 close.”
Source: Wikipedia
2000
The Archdiocese of New York buys the former synagogue and turns it into a Head Start pre-school
A year after the Mosholu Jewish Center closed, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York bought the building in 2000. In 2003 the archdiocese reopened it as a Head Start pre-school, the use it still has today.
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