Museum at Eldridge Street
Synagogue · New York, New York
The Eldridge Street Synagogue of 1887, the first great synagogue built in America by Eastern European Jews, in a Lower East Side street that is now part of Chinatown. ⚠ THE CONGREGATION SHRANK, THE MAIN SANCTUARY WAS SEALED IN THE 1950s AND SAT OPEN TO THE WEATHER FOR THIRTY YEARS — pigeons in the balcony, plaster falling — before a twenty-year, twenty-million-dollar restoration reopened it in 2007.
12 Eldridge Street, New York, New York, 10002, United States
⚠ CLOSED ON SATURDAYS FOR SHABBAT AND ON JEWISH HOLIDAYS — a religious closure, not an administrative one, and the standard wasted weekend trip. Generally open Sunday to Friday with shorter Friday hours. The sanctuary is normally seen on a GUIDED TOUR included with admission. ⚠ A PAY-WHAT-YOU-WISH DAY HAS RUN HISTORICALLY, reported on Mondays — check eldridgestreet.org. ⚠ GO AT MIDDAY ON A BRIGHT DAY; the room depends on light. ⚠ IT IS STILL AN ACTIVE CONGREGATION. ⚠ HOURS AND PRICES NOT VERIFIED FOR THIS FILE.
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