Consecration Service. Synagogue of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation Shearith Israel in the City of New York.

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

(New York

1897)

From the library of Rabbi Dr. David de Sola Pool.

Shearith Israel is the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States. It was established in 1654 and its membership has worshipped, over the centuries, in five locations. The present service commemorates the consecration of the congregation’s neoclassical building located on Central Park West at 70th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where remains its synagogue building to this day.