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A

imost in the shadow

of the canyons of Wall
Street in Lower
Manhattan is a building with
a green awning with the
words Wall Street Synagogue
on it.
Actually, the synagogue is
at 47 Beekman Place, but it's
just steps away from Wall
Street. For the Jewish
traveler to New York City, it's
an appropriate starting point
for a tour of New York's
synagogues.
Such a tour not only gives
visitors the chance to see
synagogues of varied archi-
tecture and settings, but it
also traces the history of Jews
in the city where they now
number 2.1 million.
What's of special interest in
the Wall Street Synagogue is
on the top floor. There the
visitor finds a log cabin
replica of the city's first
synagogue. Built in 1730 on
Mill Street, which today is
South William Street, this
was the earliest synagogue
building in all of North
America. It remained the on-
ly house of worship for the
early Jewish settlers in New
York for almost 100 years.
Lower Manhattan, site of
the Wall Street Synagogue, is
not far from the Lower East
Side. It has changed con-
siderably from the days when
Jewish life flourished at the
turn of the 19th century. Suc-
cessive waves of Jewish im-
migrants made their first
homes in this compact 20
block area.

The descendants of those
immigrants have long since
moved uptown or out to the
suburbs. But once this was a
center of the Yiddish-
speaking immigrant world.
Several of the synagogues
where the early Jewish
residents worshipped are still
standing as reminders of the
rich Jewish life that thrived
here.
Each of these old
synagogues has its own story.
Khal Adas Jeshurun at 12
Eldridge Street was the first
synagogue in the city built by
Ashkenazic Jews. When it
was erected by Polish Jews in
1886, it was the grandest
synagogue in the area.
The visitor today sees some
of that grandeur in its win-
dows framed by marble col-
umns and its Moorish and
Gothic details. Although it
was abandoned for 40 years,
it has now been renovated
and is a New York landmark.
The Bialystoker Synagogue
at 7 Willet Street is also a
New York landmark.
Originally built as a church,
it was bought in 1905 by a
congregation originally from
Bialystok. This Federal style
building with peaked roof and
rough-hewn fieldstone ex-
terior is still a functioning
synagogue — and the city's
oldest structure that houses a
synagogue.

Another symbol of the past
is the First Roumanian
American synagogue at 89
Rivington Street. It has a
Romanesque exterior, a Star
of David above its arch and
delicate windows. Like the
Bialystoker, it was originally