Former Shul - Brooklyn, New York
N 40° 41.246 W 073° 59.179
18T E 585654 N 4504554
In 1917, the building was remodeled into the Talmud Torah Beth Jacob Joseph, a school, but doubled as a shul. In 2004, it converted to a supper club where you can have a bar or bat mitzvah party.
Waymark Code: WMZF3H
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 11/01/2018
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The exterior of the building still retains characteristics of a synagogue. It was a shul from 1917 to sometime in the 1970s.
There is an excellent history of this building at (
visit link) including uses prior to it being a shul.
Some excerpts from that write-up:
"In 1917, the building was remodeled into the Talmud Torah Beth Jacob Joseph, a school. Many of the Jewish schools of this time also doubled as shuls, or synagogues, and this building is documented in several sources as serving as both. I was not able to find out the architect for the conversion. The building remained the Talmud Torah Beth Jacob Joseph for many years.
In 1948, the nearby Congregation Mt. Sinai Synagogue, on State Street, was destroyed in a fire. The scrolls were saved, before the roof collapsed, and they were taken here to Congregation Jacob Joseph, and the two congregations shared the space until Mt. Sinai was able to relocate and rebuild. They were there at least a year, because in 1949, a benefit was held here, again, according to the [New York] Times.
In 1977, the deed passed to the G&A Heating and Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Company, and became Time Trader Antiques sometime after that. For many years, they were a fixture on Atlantic Avenue’s Antiques Row."