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Adelaide Hebrew Congregation
Adelaide Hebrew Congregation on Grote Street, during renovations, 2024
Religion
AffiliationModern Orthodox Judaism
RiteNusach Ashkenaz
Ecclesiastical or organizational statusSynagogue
StatusActive
Location
LocationGrote Street, Adelaide, South Australia
CountryAustralia
Architecture
TypeSynagogue architecture
Completed1850 (first synagogue)
1870 (second synagogue)
1990 (Glenside)
Website
adelaidehebrew.com

The Adealaide Hebrew Congregation is a Modern Orthodox synagogue and congregation in Adelaide, in South Australia. The congregation was first established in 1848, and the synagogue was completed in 1850. A larger synagogue building was constructed in 1870 in the CBD. In 1990, the congregation relocated to a new purpose-built synagogue in Glenside, where it shared a campus with the Jewish Day School, Massada College.[1][2] The school closed in 2011 and the synagogue has since returned to a new location on Grote Street in the CBD.[3][1]

History

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Emanuel Solomon and John Lazar were among the founders of the congregation.[4][5] The congregation's first building, completed in 1850, was built in the Egyptian Revival style.[6] Judah Moss Solomon, Mayor of Adelaide, was the congregation's first president.[7] Subsequent presidents included Adelaide mayor, Lewis Cohen.[8]

In 2023, it was announced that the Congregation had purchased a new home on Grote Street, in Adelaide's CBD.[1] This came after failed efforts to colocate with the city's Progressive Jewish synagogue, Beit Shalom.[1] The decision to leave Glenside was made as that building was designed to meet the needs of a larger congregation at the time.[1] The property the congregation purchased was built in 1915 as a Seventh Day Adventist Mission Hall and subsequently housed the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees' Union of Australia and then a performing arts venue.[9]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Synagogue returning to CBD The Australian Jewish News. 19 July 2023
  2. ^ Adelaide Hebrew Congregation Adelaide Hebrew Congregation. Retrieved on 16 December 2024
  3. ^ South Australia’s only Jewish school to close The Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 4 July 2011
  4. ^ THE LATE MR. JOHN LAZAR. West Coast Times, Issue 3184, 11 June 1879. Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  5. ^ Richards, Eric (1976). "Solomon, Emanuel (1800–1873)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  6. ^ Humbert, Jean-Marcel and Price, Clifford, eds., Imhotep Today: Egyptianizing Architecture, UCL Prewss, 2003, pp. 167 ff.
  7. ^ History Archived 10 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine, Adelaide Hebrew Congregation. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  8. ^ "Death of Sir Lewis Cohen". The Advertiser. 26 June 1933. p. 15. Retrieved 30 August 2012 – via Trove.
  9. ^ Union Hall: a new performing arts venue with a rich history INDAILY. 17 December 2018


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