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The oldest congregation of these was Kehillat Anshe Maariv, which was founded in 1847. ... founded c.1658, is the oldest Jewish house of worship in North America that ...
The Touro Synagogue or Congregation Jeshuat Israel (Hebrew: קהל קדוש ישועת ישראל) is a synagogue built in 1763 in Newport, Rhode Island.As the only surviving synagogue building in the U.S. dating to the colonial era, it is the oldest synagogue building still standing in the United States and North America.
Congregation Beth Emeth ... Touro Synagogue, Newport, the oldest surviving synagogue in North America [9] South Carolina. Beth Israel Congregation, Beaufort;
Billed as America's oldest synagogue and a National Historic Site, Touro Synagogue was built in response to the need of the area's mid-18th century Jewish population for a house of worship.
The Old Synagogue in Erfurt, Germany, portions of which date from c. 1100 The Synagogue of Santa María la Blanca was built in Toledo, Spain in 1190. The Old New Synagogue in Prague, Bohemia (Czech Republic), the oldest synagogue in continuous use, built around 1270, compares similarly with the Ramban synagogue in Safed, modern Israel.
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — A bitter struggle for control over the nation's oldest synagogue goes to trial this week, with lawyers saying they may use more than 1,000 exhibits dating as far back as 1733.
Starting out in a rented hall in 1873, Temple B'nai Jeshurun is now celebrating its 150th year in service to Des Moines' Jewish community.
Touro Synagogue, built in 1759 in Newport, Rhode Island, is America's oldest surviving synagogue. The Gomez Mill House, built in 1714 near Marlboro, New York by a Sephardic Jew from Portugal. Earliest surviving Jewish residence in the U.S. Luis de Carabajal y Cueva, a Spanish conquistador and converso first set foot in what is now Texas in 1570.