Built 1833 Designated NHL September 25, 1997 Area 809.4 m² Added to NRHP 25 September 1997 | NRHP Reference # 97001270 Opened 1833 Phone +1 340-774-4312 | |
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Nearest city Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands Address Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas 00801, USVI Architectural styles Gothic Revival architecture, Greek Revival architecture Similar Fort Christian, Blackbeard's Castle, Hassel Island - US Virgin Isla, Coral World Ocean Pa, Emancipation Garden | ||
Destination bar mitzvah at the st thomas synagogue
St. Thomas Synagogue is an historic synagogue at Crystal Gade #16AB, Queens Quarters, in Charlotte Amalie on the island of Saint Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands (The address almost resembles the address in Copenhagen where the Synagogue is located at Krystal Gade #12). The formal name of the synagogue is Beracha Veshalom Vegmiluth Hasidim. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997.
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History
Saint Thomas Synagogue was built in 1833, and is the second-oldest synagogue on United States soil (after the 1763 Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island). It also has the longest history of continuous use by a Jewish congregation in the nation. It was built for a congregation founded in 1796 by Spanish and Portuguese Sephardic Jews who had come to the Caribbean Basin to finance trade between Europe and the New World.