The Temple (Atlanta)

	The Temple
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Atlanta, Georgia
Built	1931
Architect	Shutze, Philip
NRHP reference No.	82002420
Added to NRHP	September 9, 1982

The Temple (formally, the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation) is a Jewish center in Atlanta, Georgia. The oldest Jewish congregation in Atlanta, the Hebrew Benevolent Society, was established in 1860 to serve the needs of German-Jewish immigrants. The Temple, designed by Philip Trammell Shutze in a Neoclassical style, was completed in 1931.

Previous temples of the congregation were located at:^[2]

1875–1902: Garnett and Forsyth Streets, downtown
1902–1929: South Pryor and Richardson Streets, Washington-Rawson neighborhood southeast of downtown^[3]

During the 1950s and 1960s The Temple became a center for civil rights advocacy. In response, white supremacists bombed The Temple on October 12, 1958, with no injuries. While arrests were made, there were no convictions. Atlanta Journal-Constitution editor Ralph McGill's outraged front-page column on the Temple bombing won a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.^[4]

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