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Beth Hamedrash Hagodol (Hebrew: בֵּית הַמִּדְרָש הַגָּדוֹל, “Great Study House”) is associate degree Orthodox human congregation that for over one hundred twenty years was placed during a historic building at 60-64 port Street between Grand and Broome Streets within the Lower side neighborhood of Manhattan, ny town. It had been the primary japanese European congregation based in ny town and also the oldest Russian human Orthodox congregation within the us.
Founded in 1852 by Rabbi Ibrahim Ash as letter of the alphabet Hamedrash, the congregation split in 1859, with the rabbi and most of the members renaming their congregation letter of the alphabet Hamedrash Hagadol. The congregation’s president and alittle range of the members eventually fashioned the nucleus of Kahal Adath Jeshurun (also referred to as the Eldridge Street Synagogue). Rabbi Jacob Joseph, the primary and solely Chief Rabbi of latest royalty town, light-emitting diode the congregation from 1888 to 1902. Rabbi Ephraim Oshry, one amongst the few European human legal decisors to survive the Holocaust, light-emitting diode the congregation from 1952 to 2003.
The congregation’s building, a Gothic Revival structure in-built 1850 and purchased in 1885, was one amongst the most important synagogues on the Lower side. It had been listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. Within the late twentieth century the congregation dwindled and was unable to take care of the building, that had been broken by storms. Despite their getting funding and grants, the structure was critically vulnerable.
As of 2008[update] the Lower side Conservancy was {trying|making associate degree attempt|attempting} to boost an calculable $4.5 million for repairs, with the intent of changing it to an academic center. The congregation, reduced to around twenty frequently attending members, was sharing facilities with a congregation on Henry Street.
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