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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (89736)	8/22/2010 5:59:33 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 224718

The first group of Spanish and Portuguese Jews arrived in New York (New Amsterdam) in September 1654. After some legal troubles with Governor Peter Stuyvesant, Jews were given official permission to settle in the colony in 1655. This marks the founding of the Congregation Shearith Israel. Despite their permission to stay in New Amsterdam they continued to face legal troubles and were not given permission to worship in a public synagogue for some time (throughout the Dutch period and even into the British). The Congregation did, however, make arrangements for a cemetery beginning in 1656. It was not until 1730 that the Congregation was able to build a synagogue of its own; it was built on Mill Street in lower Manhattan. Before 1730, as is evidenced from a map of New York from 1695, the congregation worshipped in rented quarters on Beaver Street and subsequently on Mill Street. Since 1730 the Congregation has worshipped in five synagogues: Mill Street, 1730 Mill Street re-built and expanded, 1818 Crosby Street, 1834 19th Street, 1860 West 70th Street, 1897 (present building.) en.wikipedia.org