The Historian · Eleanor · New York
Eldridge Street Synagogue (Museum at Eldridge Street)
This was the first great synagogue built by Eastern European Jewish immigrants in the United States, opened in 1887, when the Lower East Side was the densest Jewish neighborhood in the world. The congregation declined, the sanctuary was sealed for decades, and a twenty-year restoration brought back the soaring Moorish Revival interior and its rose window. It's immigration history you can stand inside.
An 1887 Moorish Revival synagogue — the first built by East European Jews in America, beautifully restored.
— Eleanor, The Historian
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