REMEMBER: OLD BROADWAY SYNAGOGUE OF HARLEM

The Jewish New Year is upon us and thus becomes a good time to look back at Harlem's longest running Jewish house of worship.  In 1921, there were over 178,000 Jews living uptown which is a number greater than African-Americans living in Harlem today.  Chevra Talmud Torah Anshei Marov which is the Manhattanville congregation of The Old Broadway Syngogue has been around for over a century and the building that still stands in modern times just north of 125th Street was built in 1923.  In the mid century, New York City's postwar decline in quality of life forced the synagogue to replace the stained-glass windows with brick because of rampant vandalism.  Today the times have changed and all of the stained glass has been restored in recent years.  For more on the history of The Old Broadway Synagogue, check out this post from the congregation's blog site: LINK