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Temple Beth El of Borough Park

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architect
  
Shampan & Shampan

NRHP Reference #
  
10000224

Added to NRHP
  
27 April 2010

Built
  
1920-1923

Architectural style
  
Moorish, Egyptian

Phone
  
+1 718-435-9020

Temple Beth El of Borough Park

Location
  
4802 15th Ave., Brooklyn, New York

Address
  
4802 15th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11219, USA

Similar
  
Beth Aharon Synagogue, Ocean Parkway Jewish C, Jewish Center of Kings Hig, Beth El Jewish Center of, Young Israel of Flatbush

Temple Beth El of Borough Park, now known as Young Israel Beth El of Borough Park, is a historic synagogue at 4802 15th Avenue in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York, New York. It was built between 1920 and 1923 and is a three story building with Moorish and Egyptian design influences.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

Beth El historically has a distinguished list of officials, including:

  • Rabbi Simon Glazer, rabbi in the mid-1920s
  • Mordechai Hershman, cantor throughout the 1920s
  • Rabbi Israel Schorr, rabbi from 1938 to 2000
  • Moshe Koussevitzky, cantor from 1952 to 1966
  • Benzion Miller, cantor from 1981 to the present
  • References

    Temple Beth El of Borough Park Wikipedia