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the week, a Head Start school
uses the space for classes.
"It is a very active, very much
alive congregation," said Bishop
Hilliard
Like the building at Dexter and
Lawrence, most other synagogues
in the city have become Protes-
tant churches. Still more have
been leveled to make way for
parking lots as well as other de-
velopments.
The congregation, at one time
known as the Hungarian Hebrew
Congregation, began in 1911 with
a total of about 25 Orthodox fam-
ilies, most of whom had immi-
grated from Hungary. Six years
later, the congregation had grown
to 70 families and was able to
erect its first building, a brick
structure at the corner of Garfield
and Beaubien.
During the years in that shul,
the congregation also changed its
name. Seven children in the
Gunsberg family pooled their re-
sources, made a large donation
and renamed the shul in honor of
their father, Moshe Gunsberg;
thus the congregation became
known as Congregation B'nai
Moshe, meaning "sons of Moshe."
With a new name, a growing
roster of 200 families and 250 stu-
dents in its Sunday school, the
congregation began planning in
1927 for a new shul which was
completed two years later at Dex-
ter and Lawrence. A school wing
was added in 1951.
The congregation gained a rep-
utation during those years as a
place of refuge for survivors of the
Holocaust, many of whom emi-
grated from their former Hun-
garian villages and cities. Many
European Jews were referred by
various Jewish agencies who
linked the new arrivals with the
shul because of its ethnic origins.
Nathan and Edith Roth made
the shul their home in the late
1950s when they arrived in De-
troit. Survivors of Auschwitz and
its sub-camps, the pair found a
level of comfort they didn't expect.
"People were warm and friend-
ly," Mr. Roth recalled. "Everyone
knew each other."
The congregation was to make
two more stops. In 1959, white
flight from the city caused the con-
gregation to follow its members to
10 Mile Road between Coolidge
and Greenfield in Oak Park. That
building was sold in 1989 to Yeshi-
va Beth Yehudah for the Sally
Allen Alexander Beth Jacob
School for Girls.
The membership, about 400
families at the time of the sale,
dipped to about 200 when the con-
gregation relocated from its Oak
Park home to the Jewish Com-
munity Center in West Bloom-
field; the congregation's latest
building on Drake near Maple
Road opened in 1992 and is home
to about 550 families.
No plans are in place regard-
ing a celebration for the desig-
nation, church officials said.

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