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The Washington D.C. Temple (originally known as the Washington Temple, until 1999), is the 16th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Located in Kensington, Maryland, just north of Washington, D.C., and near the Capital Beltway, it was the church's first temple built east of the Mississippi River since the original Nauvoo Temple was completed in 1846.
In 1953, the congregation purchased a property in the Chevy Chase neighborhood of Northwest DC. The cornerstone of Temple Sinai was laid in October 1957. [1] In 2014, Rabbi Adam Rosenwasser was hired as an associate rabbi. A gay man, Rabbi Rosenwasser was the first rabbi of a DC synagogue to have a spouse of the same sex. [2]
Washington Hebrew Congregation, abbreviated as WHC, is a Reform Jewish synagogue location at 3935 Macomb Street NW, in Washington, D.C., in the United States.Established as a congregation in 1852, the congregation manages two places of worship, the temple in Washington, D.C., completed in 1955, and the Julia Bindeman Suburban Center, a community center, located at 11810 Falls Road, Potomac ...
In 1987, Temple Beth Or absorbed the former Congregation Moses Montefiore, Orthodox [1]: 46, 87 Temple B'nai Torah, Bellevue [1]: 78 Congregation Kol Ami, Vancouver [30] Olympic B'nai Shalom Havurah, Port Angeles; Temple De Hirsch Sinai, Seattle This merges the earlier Temple De Hirsch, Seattle and Temple Sinai, Bellevue [1]: 21–23
On May 31, 1911, 110 years after the founding of the Supreme Council, Grand Commander James D. Richardson broke ground on the spot where the House of the Temple now stands in Washington, D.C. Grand Master J. Claude Keiper, of the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, laid the cornerstone in the northeast corner on October 18, 1911.
A gurdwara is a Sikh center of worship or temple. Canada ... The National Gurdwara in Washington, DC. Name City The National Gurdwara: District of Columbia: Florida. Name
Temple Micah was founded as Southwest Hebrew Congregation in 1963 and was initially located in Southwest, D.C. near the Potomac River waterfront. The congregation officially affiliated with the Union for Reform Judaism in 1965. In 1966, the congregation began a 28 year long shared space agreement with St. Augustine's Episcopal Church.
Sixth & I’s arts and culture programming includes talks, concerts, and comedy shows. Speakers and authors have included President George W. Bush; Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, John Paul Stevens, Elena Kagan, and Sandra Day O’Connor; Secretaries of State John Kerry, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, and Condoleezza Rice; Nobel Laureates Toni Morrison, V. S ...