Sixth Street Community Synagogue

325 East 6th Street | also 323 East 6th Street | East Village | built 1847

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

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1847
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew builds the Renaissance Revival church
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew builds the Renaissance Revival church on East 6th Street in 1847, first renting the sanctuary to the newer congregation of St. Mark's before selling it to them outright in 1857. The building serves German Lutheran worshippers for decades before the 1904 General Slocum disaster drives much of the congregation uptown to Yorkville.
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1904
June 15
Over 1,000 people from this church's congregation die in the General Slocum fire
Built in 1847 by German Lutherans, the church was sold in 1857 to St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church. On June 15, 1904, the congregation's Ladies' Aid Society chartered the steamboat General Slocum for its annual outing. The boat caught fire, and more than 1,000 people died, most of them women and children from the parish. Survivors left Little Germany for Yorkville.
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1940
The former Lutheran church becomes the Sixth Street Community Synagogue
With its German congregation dispersed after the Slocum disaster, the building was converted in 1940 into the Sixth Street Community Synagogue, a Modern Orthodox congregation serving the Jewish families who had settled in the area. The St. Mark's parish merged with Zion Church in Yorkville in 1946. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
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