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Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim

KAHAL KADOSH BETH ELOHIM 
(HOLY CONGREGATION HOUSE OF GOD)
FOUNDED 1750 
THE CRADLE OF REFORM JUDAISM 
IN THE UNITED STATES, 1824 

JEWS WHO SETTLED IN CHARLESTON AS EARLY AS 
1695 WORSHIPED INFORMALLY UNTIL THE FOUNDING 
OF THIS CONGREGATION IN 1750. FIRST SYNAGOGUE 
ON THIS SITE, 1780-1792, WAS A CONVERTED COTTON 
GIN. A SECOND, BUILT IN 1888 WAS THE SECOND 
JEWISH SUNDAY SCHOOL IN THE UNITED STATES. THE 
PRESENT SYNAGOGUE, DESIGNED BY C. L. WARNER 
AND BUILT BY DAVID LOPEZ, 1840, IS THE SECOND 
OLDEST IN THE UNITED STATES, AND OLDEST IN 
CONTINUOUS USE. THE TABERNACLE WAS BUILT 1948 
ON THE SITE OF THE OLD TABERNACLE (1888-1948) 
GEORGE WASHINGTON WROTE THE CONGREGATION 
IN 1790:

"MAY THE SAME TEMPORAL AND ETERNAL BLESSINGS WHICH 
YOU EMPLORE FOR ME, REST UPON YOUR CONGREGATION"

APPROVED BY THE 
HISTORICAL COMMISSION OF CHARLESTON, S.C.

 

Submitted by Colin Bunnell 

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