Congregation Chasam Sopher
8 Clinton Street | also 10 Clinton Street | Lower East Side | built 1923
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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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- 1853
Congregation Rodeph Sholom builds the Romanesque Revival synagogue
Congregation Rodeph Sholom builds a Romanesque Revival synagogue on Clinton Street. The building later counts as one of the oldest synagogues surviving in the United States. It is New York's second-oldest synagogue building and the oldest in the state still in use.
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- 1892
Two Polish congregations merge to form Chasam Sopher
Two congregations of immigrants from Poland merge to form Congregation Chasam Sopher. The Orthodox congregation occupies the historic synagogue building that Rodeph Sholom had put up on Clinton Street in 1853.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2006
A restoration exposes the synagogue's original woodwork
Work on the upstairs sanctuary, finished in 2006, preserves the Torah ark, adds new stained-glass windows and strips paint from the interior to bring out the original wood. Landscaping outside also creates a garden for the neighborhood.
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- Congregation Chasam SopherWikipedia
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