Congregation Rodeph Shalom (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Congregation Rodeph Shalom (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Philadelphia (Pa.). Congregation Rodeph Shalom

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Temple Rodef Shalom (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Philadelphia. Congregation Rodeph Shalom

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Rodef Shalom (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Congregation Rodeph Shalom of Philadelphia, founded in 1795, is the oldest Ashkenazic synagogue in the Western Hemisphere. Founded informally as a minyan of ten worshipers in 1795 by Jews from Germany, Holland, and Poland, Rodeph Shalom adopted its first Articles of Association in 1802, and in 1812 was the first synagogue in Pennsylvania to receive a corporate charter.

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https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85266342

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