| Temple Israel | |||||||||||
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| Location: | 17 South 7th Street, Lafayette, Indiana | ||||||||||
| Country: | United States | ||||||||||
| Map Type: | USA Indiana Tippecanoe County | ||||||||||
| Map Size: | 250 | ||||||||||
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| Coordinates: | 40.4167°N -86.8878°W | ||||||||||
| Architecture Type: | Synagogue architecture | ||||||||||
| Founded By: | Ahavas Achim Congregation | ||||||||||
| General Contractor: | Jacob Welschbillig | ||||||||||
| Established: | 1849 | ||||||||||
| Year Completed: | 1867 | ||||||||||
| Date Destroyed: | --> | ||||||||||
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| Footnotes: | [1] | ||||||||||
Temple Israel is a historic former Reform Jewish synagogue, located at Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, in the United States. Its 1867 building is one of the oldest synagogue buildings in the United States.[2] Deconsecrated as a synagogue in 1969, the most recent use of the building was as a Unitarian church.
The congregation, called Ahavas Achim Congregation, was formed on April 27, 1849, the second Jewish congregation organized in Indiana.[3] [4] In 1874 it became a founding member of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.[5] The congregation moved to its third and present location on Cumberland Avenue in West Lafayette.[5]
The Temple Israel building of 1866–1867, located at 17 South 7th Street, was renamed as Temple Israel in 1919. It is a two-story Rundbogenstil structure.[3] [6] The building was dedicated by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise.
Morris M. Feuerlicht was rabbi of Temple Israel from 1901 to 1904.[7]
The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[5] [8] [9]
In 1969 the building was sold to the American National Red Cross and was purchased in 1976 by the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Greater Lafayette.[10] The UU congregation vacated this location in October 2007.