Ocean Parkway Jewish Center
550 Ocean Parkway | also 562 Ocean Parkway | Kensington | built 1933
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- 1924
Two Kensington congregations merge and buy seven lots on Ocean Parkway within a month
The First Congregation of Kensington, founded in 1907, and the West Flatbush Jewish Center join together in 1924. Their synagogues stood about two blocks apart, at Ditmas and Dahill Roads and on East 2nd Street near Ditmas, and each group had outgrown its space. Within a month of the merger, the new congregation buys seven lots on Ocean Parkway.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1926
The Ocean Parkway Jewish Center is completed at a cost of about $450,000
The merged congregation finishes its new synagogue on Ocean Parkway in 1926. The total cost comes to around $450,000. At the time it carries a long formal name that ties the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center to the First Congregation of Kensington Tiphereth Israel.
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- 1926
Samuel Malkind and Martyn Weinstein design a stone-clad Neoclassical synagogue with a temple front
Architects Samuel Malkind and Martyn Weinstein, who formed a partnership after Malkind left Louis Abramson's firm, design the building. It rises three stories over a basement, with an attic, and its stone facade has three round-arched entrances below a temple-front arrangement on the upper floors. The design follows Abramson's model of mixing Neoclassical decoration with Jewish symbols.
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- 2009
The synagogue is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The Ocean Parkway Jewish Center, built between 1924 and 1926 after two Kensington congregations joined forces, is added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The congregation, which was affiliated with Conservative Judaism for nearly thirty years under Rabbi Jacob Bosniak, is now Orthodox.
“It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.”
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