List of synagogues in the United States

Adas Israel Congregation, founded in 1869
Kesher Israel Congregation, the Georgetown Synagogue, founded in 1911
Machar, The Washington Congregation for Secular Humanistic Judaism, Washington D.C.
Ohev Sholom - The National Synagogue, formerly Ohev Sholom Talmud Torah, formed in 1958 as a merger between Ohev Sholom Congregation, founded as Chai Adon Congregation in 1886, and Talmud Torah Congregation, founded in 1889
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, rededicated in 2004, housed in the building that served Adas Israel Congregation between 1908 and 1951
Washington Hebrew Congregation, founded in 1852

Florida

Ahavath Chesed competes with Temple Beth-El in Pensacola for the honor of being each the oldest Jewish congregation in Florida. The Jacksonville congregation was meeting for prayer by 1867, but appears to have incorporated later than Pensacola which dedicated its first building in 1876, well before Jacksonville's 1882 building.
Bet Shira Congregation
Temple Beth-El (Pensacola, Florida). See above under Jacksonville’s Ahavath Chesed synagogue.
United Hebrews of Ocala. Their building, built in 1888, may be the oldest Florida synagogue building still standing.

Georgia

Congregation B'nai Torah of Sandy Springs, Georgia held its first services in 1981
Congregation Mickve Israel of Savannah, Georgia was organized in 1733.

Hawaii

Aloha Jewish Chapel, Pearl Harbor
Temple Emanu-El, Honolulu

Idaho

Ahavath Beth Israel, Boise, Idaho (1896).^[1] The synagogue was built for Beth Israel (founded 1895). In the 1980s, the congregation was formed as a merger of Congregation Beth Israel and Ahavath Israel (founded 1912).

Illinois

KAM Isaiah Israel merged several older congregations in Chicago, the oldest of which - Kehillat Anshe Maarav - was founded in 1847.

Indiana

Ahavas Shalom Reform Temple
Congregation Achduth Vesholom of Fort Wayne was formed in 1848^[2]
Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation

Iowa

B'nai Israel Synagogue (Council Bluffs, Iowa)
B'nai Jacob Synagogue (Ottumwa, Iowa)
Mount Sinai Temple (Sioux City, Iowa)
Temple Emanuel of Davenport was formed as B’Nai Israel Congregation on October 21, 1861. It is Iowa's oldest Jewish congregation still in existence.^[3]

Kentucky

Congregation Agudath Achim (Ashland)

Temple Beth Shalom, Louisville^{[citation needed]}
Temple Israel, Louisville^{[citation needed]}
Anshei Sfard, Louisville^{[citation needed]}
Kenneseth Israel, Louisville^{[citation needed]}
Adath Jeshurun, Louisville^{[citation needed]}
Adath Israel, Lexington^{[citation needed]}
Ohavay Zion, Lexington^{[citation needed]}
Temple Israel, Paducah^{[citation needed]}

Maine

Etz Chaim Synagogue, Portland, Maine
Shaarey Tphiloh, Portland, Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Temple Emanuel, Grand Rapids, oldest extant synagogue building (1882), congregation founded in 1857 (fifth oldest in the U.S.)
Temple Israel, West Bloomfield
Temple Beth El, Bloomfield Township
Temple Shir Shalom (West Bloomfield, Michigan), www.shirshalom.org West Bloomfield

Missouri

United Hebrew Congregation, 1837, is the oldest congregation in Missouri and west of the Mississippi River.
Congregation Shaare Emeth (Creve Coeur, Missouri), 1869.
Congregation B'nai Amoona (Creve Coeur, Missouri), 1882.
Temple Beth El, Jefferson City, Continuous operation in the same location and building since 1883.
Congregation Temple Israel (Creve Coeur, Missouri), 1886.

Minnesota

Mississippi

Montana

Temple Emanu-El (Helena, Montana), built 1891,^[4] first and oldest synagogue in Montana, building now converted to other uses.

Nebraska

New Jersey

New Mexico

Congregation Albert, founded in 1897, is the oldest continuing Jewish organization in New Mexico.^[5]^[6]

New York

Agudas Achim Synagogue, Livingston Manor, NY
Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue, Sullivan County, NY
B'nai Israel Synagogue (Woodbourne, New York)
B'nai Jeshurun (Manhattan, New York)
Beth Joseph Synagogue, Tupper Lake, NY
Chevro Ahavath Zion Synagogue, Monticello, NY
Congregation B'nai Israel Synagogue, Fleischmanns, NY
Congregation Emanu-El of New York, Manhattan, NY
Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, Manhattan, NY
Central Synagogue, Manhattan, NY
Congregation Shaare Zedek (New York City)
Congregation Shaare Zion, Brooklyn, NY
Congregation Tifereth Israel (Glen Cove, New York)
Congregation Tifereth Israel Synagogue, Greenport, NY
Fifth Avenue Synagogue, Manhattan, NY
North Country Reform Temple, Glen Cove, NY
Park Avenue Synagogue, Manhattan, NY
Park East Synagogue, Manhattan, NY
Temple Beth-El, Hornell, New York (inactive)
Temple Beth Zion, Buffalo, NY
Temple Shaaray Tefila, Manhattan,NY
Temple Society of Concord, Syracuse, NY

North Carolina

North Dakota

B'nai Israel Synagogue and Montefiore Cemetery, Grand Forks, North Dakota

Ohio

Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple (Beachwood)
Oheb Zedek-Cedar Sinai Synagogue (Lyndhurst)
Park Synagogue (Cleveland Heights)
The Rockdale Temple (1824), originally known as K.K. Bene Israel in Cincinnati, is the oldest congregation west of the Allegheny Mountains and the second oldest Ashkenazi congregation in the United States.
Sherith Israel Temple, also in Cincinnati (1860) is the oldest synagogue structure west of the Alleghenies.
Temple Tifereth-Israel (Beachwood)

Oklahoma

Oregon

Congregation Beth Israel, Portland, Oregon
Neveh Shalom Synagogue, Portland, Oregon

Pennsylvania

Congregation Mikveh Israel, congregation founded in 1740s in Philadelphia
Congregation Kehillas B'nai Shalom (Bucks County)
Congregation Rodeph Shalom, on the NRHP
Beth Shalom Congregation, Synagogue building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
Kesher Israel Congregation, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Congregation Shivtei Yeshuron-Ezras Israel, Oldest active South Philadelphia rowhouse shul

Rhode Island

Sons of Jacob Synagogue (Providence, Rhode Island)
Temple Beth-El (Providence, Rhode Island)
Touro Synagogue (Newport, Rhode Island) is the oldest surviving synagogue in North America.

South Carolina

Congregation Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, Charleston, South Carolina
Temple Beth Elohim (Georgetown, South Carolina)
Beth Israel Congregation (Beaufort, South Carolina)
Beth Israel Congregation (Florence, South Carolina)
House of Peace Synagogue, Columbia, South Carolina
Temple Sinai (Sumter, South Carolina)

Tennessee

Temple Adas Israel (Brownsville, Tennessee)
Baron Hirsch Synagogue, Memphis, Tennessee
Temple Israel (Memphis, Tennessee)
Mizpah Congregation, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Congregation Ohabai Sholom (Nashville, Tennessee)
Congregation Sherith Israel (Nashville, Tennessee)
Temple B'Nai Israel, Jackson, Tennessee

Texas

B'nai Abraham Synagogue, Brenham, Brenham, Texas Congregation founded in 1885.
The 1870 building of Congregation B'nai Israel (Galveston, Texas), is the oldest synagogue building.
Temple Beth Israel (Houston, Texas), founded in 1854, is the oldest congregation in the state.
Congregation Beth Yeshurun (Houston, Texas) is one of the largest Conservative synagogues in the world.
Temple Sinai (Houston, Texas), was the first Reform Synagogue to be established in West Houston.

U.S. Virgin Islands

St. Thomas Synagogue, Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

Utah

Vermont

Old Ohavi Zedek Synagogue

Virginia

Agudas Achim Congregation (Alexandria, Virginia)

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

References

^ Synagogue architecture in America: faith, spirit & identity By Henry Stolzman, Daniel Stolzman [1]
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^ Temple Emanuel celebrates 150 years
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[synarch-1] Synagogue architecture in America: faith, spirit & identity By Henry Stolzman, Daniel Stolzman [1]

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[3] Temple Emanuel celebrates 150 years

[4] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-02-20. Retrieved 2014-02-13. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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