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Its synagogue building is the oldest surviving in Toronto that is still in use, [1] and was designated an Ontario Heritage site [2] in 1984 under the Ontario Heritage Act. [3] Located at 56 Maria Street, in Toronto's Junction neighbourhood, the congregation was established in 1909 [2] by Jewish immigrants, largely from Russia and Poland. [4]
Adath Israel Congregation, Toronto Holy Blossom Temple Kiever Synagogue, Toronto. A list of synagogues in the Greater Toronto Area, a region with a large Jewish population. Most are located along Bathurst Street in Toronto, North York and Thornhill, but some are located in areas of newer Jewish immigrants.
Shaarei Tzedec Congregation (also known as the Markham Street Shul) is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 397 Markham Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Shaarei Tzedec congregation was founded in 1902 [ 1 ] and is the westernmost of the three Orthodox synagogues left in Downtown Toronto .
The Chinese Spadina began in the 1970s after the departure of Jewish Toronto (1920s to 1960s) from the area. It supplanted an older Chinatown centred on Dundas Street West and Elizabeth Street, which was disrupted when New City Hall was constructed in the early 1960s. Just west of the avenue in this area is the famed Kensington Market.
City Shul is a Reform synagogue in downtown Toronto, founded in October 2012 and led by Rabbi Elyse Goldstein. [1] Until September 2017, the congregation met at the Wolfond Centre for Jewish Campus Life, near the St George campus of the University of Toronto. From 2017 to 2022, it was located in the same building as Bloor Street United Church.
The Kiever Synagogue, Anshei Minsk (also in Kensington Market), and Shaarei Tzedec are the only historic Orthodox congregations remaining of at least 40 that existed in downtown Toronto in the early 1930s. [15] In 2019 prominent fiddlers played within the synagogue to help raise $100,000 for roofing repairs. [16]
[2] [3] These aviation facilities are situated within and around Toronto and its neighbouring cities, serving airline passengers, regional air travel and commercial cargo transportation. Toronto Pearson International Airport, located mainly in Mississauga, is the busiest airport in Canada and hosts international travel with various airlines.
Downtown Toronto is the main city centre of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located entirely within the district of Old Toronto , it is approximately 16.6 square kilometres in area, [ 3 ] bounded by Bloor Street to the north, Lake Ontario to the south, the Don Valley to the east, and Bathurst Street to the west.