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Temple Sholom (formally Temple Sholom of Chicago) is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 3480 North Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. Founded in 1867, as of 2010 [update] it was one of the oldest and largest congregations in Chicago with over 1,100 member families.
The Chicago Loop Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue, located at 16 South Clark Street, in the Loop precinct of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. Completed in 1958, [ 3 ] the synagogue is renowned for a stained glass artwork by Abraham Rattner .
Pilgrim Baptist Church is a historic church located on the of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The landmarked building was originally constructed for a synagogue, Kehilath Anshe Ma'arav . The church is notable both as an architectural landmark and for the cultural contributions by the congregation of the church.
Chicago Sinai Congregation [a] is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 15 West Delaware Place, in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. Founded in 1861, the current synagogue building was designed by Dirk Lohan and completed in 1996, inclusive of stained-glass windows by British artist Brian Clarke .
Anshe Emet Synagogue was established in 1873 in a building on Sedgwick Avenue in Chicago. [2] In 1876, the congregation rented its first permanent meeting place on Division Street and hired Rabbi A.A. Lowenheim, a member of Central Conference of American Rabbis , [ 3 ] as religious leader. [ 4 ]
KAM Isaiah Israel is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 1100 East Hyde Park Boulevard in the historic Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is the oldest Jewish congregation in Chicago, [2] with its oldest core founded in 1847 as Kehilath Anshe Ma'arav (Hebrew: קהלת אנשי מערב, lit.
The first sites in Chicago to be listed were four listed on October 15, 1966, when the National Register was created by the National Park Service: the settlement house Hull House, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Frederick C. Robie House, the Lorado Taft Midway Studios, and the site of First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction. The NPS first ...
The congregation's 1964 building is located on a 19-acre (7.7 ha) lakefront parcel, formerly the location of a 1911 mansion that was designed by Chicago architect David Adler for his uncle, hat manufacturer Charles A. Stonehill, and was later owned by Syma Cohen Busiel, the co-founder of Lady Esther cosmetics, before it was sold to the ...