Obj. ID: 34246
Jewish Architecture Poel Zedek Anashei Illiya Synagogue at Forsyth St. in New York, USA
Built in 1890 as the Forsyth Street Church. In 1900 was acquired by the congregation of immigrants from Illia (Illya, Ilja) in Belarus. In 1971 sold to the Seventh-Day Adventist Church of Union Square.
For historic photographs by Percy Loomis Sperr (1890-1964), see The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library, The New York Public Library Digital Collections:
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-3715-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-3713-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
For historic photographs by Morris Huberland, see The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library, The New York Public Library Digital Collections:
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7c50d710-12c5-0133-16bc-58d385a7bbd0
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7bba0110-12c5-0133-6358-58d385a7bbd0
sub-set tree:
| 126 Forsyth St.
Mendelsohn, Joyce. Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited: A History and Guide to a Legendary New York Neighborhood. 2nd edition (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009)
Wolfe, Gerard R. The Synagogues of New York’s Lower East Side, 2nd ed. (New York: Empire State Editions, 2012), pp. 161-162..