Old Broadway Synagogue
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 142 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5124-1405-7
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Old Broadway Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue incorporated in 1911 under the name Chevra Talmud Torah Anshei Marovi, by an immigrant named Morris Schiff , (Torah Study Society, People of the West Side ) Schiff was a polish immigrant who lived in the Harlem area, an area with a high jewish population at the time. The temple located at 15 Old Broadway (a rare vestige on Manhattan island of the Bloomingdale Road), the Old Broadway Synagogue is a "vernacular" style synagogue built in 1923 by the architectural firm of Meisner Uffner. The congregation formed from the mostly Ashkenazic Jewish population of Russian and Polish immigrants to New York during the 1880s who had made their way up to Central Harlem, then migrated to blocks west. The members initially met in storefronts and purportedly in the back room of a bar until the congregation purchased a house on Old Broadway. This structure was torn down shortly thereafter to make way...
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