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| Old Broadway Synagogue | |
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 Old Broadway Synagogue in 2014 | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Orthodox Judaism |
| Rite | Nusach Ashkenaz |
| Ecclesiastical or organizational status | Synagogue |
| Status | Active |
| Location | |
| Location | 15 Old Broadway,Manhattanville,Harlem,Manhattan,New York City,New York 10027 |
| Country | United States |
  Location inManhattan | |
| Coordinates | 40°48′55″N73°57′27″W / 40.81528°N 73.95750°W /40.81528; -73.95750 |
| Architecture | |
| Architects | Meisner and Uffner |
| Type | Synagogue |
| Style | Gothic Revival |
| Established | 1911(as a congregation) |
| Completed | 1923 |
| Website | |
| oldbroadwaysynagogue | |
Old Broadway Synagogue | |
| Area | 0.1 acres (0.040 ha) |
| NRHP reference No. | 01001440 |
| Added to NRHP | January 11, 2002 |
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Old Broadway Synagogue, officiallyChevra Talmud Torah Anshei Marovi, is anOrthodoxJewishsynagogue located at 15 Old Broadway, in theManhattanville neighborhood ofHarlem,Manhattan, inNew York City,New York, United States. The congregation practices in theAshkenazirite.
The congregation was incorporated in 1911 under the name Chevra Talmud Torah Anshei Marovi by Morris Schiff, aPolishimmigrant who lived in the Harlem area, an area with a high Jewish population at the time. As of 2011[update], the congregation claimed to represent the diversity of theWest Harlem community,[2] including students fromColumbia University,Barnard College, and theJewish Theological Seminary.[3]
Built in 1923, the synagogue building was listed on theNational Register of Historic Places in January 2002.[4]
The Synagogue is located at 15 Old Broadway (a rare vestige of theBloomingdale Road in Manhattan). The Old Broadway Synagogue was built in 1923 and designed by the architectural firm of Meisner and Uffner.[5] The congregation formed from the mostlyAshkenazic Jewish population of Russian and Polish immigrants to New York during the 1880s who had made their way up to Central Harlem, then migrated to blocks west. The members initially met in storefronts and purportedly in the back room of a bar until the congregation purchased a house on Old Broadway. This structure was torn down shortly thereafter to make way for the synagogue. The congregation had an active Talmud Torah (Hebrew school) probably from its founding until the 1960s or 1970s. Among its early rabbis were the authorSimon Glazer and Shepard Brodie.[citation needed]
Paul Radensky, Museum Educator for Jewish Schools for theMuseum of Jewish Heritage is the president of the congregation.[6]
Media related toOld Broadway Synagogue at Wikimedia Commons
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See also:National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan (Islands,Below 14th St.,14th–59th Sts.,59th–110th Sts.,Above 110th St.) andList of National Historic Landmarks in New York City Note: National Historic Landmarks are not listed separately. | |||||||||||||||
