y Jews of Early New York
Mill Street Synagogue
Consecrated Passover 1730
Mill Street Synagogue was the first purpose-built synagogue in North America. The congregation for which it was built, Shearith Israel, was the first Jewish congregation in the New World— originally founded in 1654 by Spanish and Portuguese immigrants to New Amsterdam. The synagogue was expanded in 1818, then demolished and moved slightly uptown in 1834. The original site is now a parking garage and the congregation has relocated again, this time to the Upper West Side.
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The first Mill Street Synagogue building
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Mill Street in New Amsterdam with the old mill in back.
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Slightly later map of the street and plot