So How Much for an Old West Synagogue?

[Aunt Jen]

In the old west, what would there have been? Different buildings for different religions who raised the money for them.

 

I don't know what it would cost. Are they expensive? Can we get one from the Sears catalog?

 

If they're toooo expensive, then should we build another one that is multi-purpose?

 

If we were to raise money for a synagogue, that'd be cool. But I'm not orthodox, not into being separated from the men, etc.

 

Could we have an early easy-go synagogue with its Jewish propers, but not requiring that of me?

 

Baruch atah Adonai, Elohenu melech ha-olam....

 

Aunt Jen

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

Ahhh.... brings to mind "The Frisco Kid," with Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford. Late 70's, as I recall - a fun movie!

[Subdeacon Joe]

shehecheyanu, v'kiyimanu, v'higiyanu laz'man hazeh.

 

Here is a bit I found:

 

The first synagogue in California was Congregation B'Nai Israel, formed in 1852 in Sacramento. B'Nai Israel moved into a building used previously as the Methodist Episcopal Church. The land to build Temple Emanuel in Spokane, Washington, 1892, was contributed by a Christian to encourage Jewish religious life.

 

Synagogue communities formed in Sacramento, California – 1852, Houston, Texas, 1854, Portland, Oregon 1858, Tombstone, Arizona 1861, Tombstone, Denver, Colorado 1875, Las Vegas, New Mexico 1884, Spokane, Washington, 1892, Eureka, Nevada, 1880, Helena, Montana, 1890, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1891, Boise, Idaho, 1895.

 

I didn't find photos from before the first few decades of the 1900s. Well, there may have been a few, but no attribution of when the structure was built.

 

Here is one in San Francisco, sometime before 1906 http://www.sturm.to/blog2/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/elemanuel-3-big-3a28209u.jpg

 

Here,right after the Quake: http://webbie1.sfpl.org/multimedia/sfphotos/AAC-2799.jpg

[Aunt Jen]

Ahhh.... brings to mind "The Frisco Kid," with Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford. Late 70's, as I recall - a fun movie!

 

Yes, Hardpan. I have that movie and enjoy it. Love the actors in it.

 

Aunt Jen

[Aunt Jen]

shehecheyanu, v'kiyimanu, v'higiyanu laz'man hazeh.

 

Here is a bit I found:

 

 

 

I didn't find photos from before the first few decades of the 1900s. Well, there may have been a few, but no attribution of when the structure was built.

 

Here is one in San Francisco, sometime before 1906 http://www.sturm.to/blog2/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/elemanuel-3-big-3a28209u.jpg

 

Here,right after the Quake: http://webbie1.sfpl.org/multimedia/sfphotos/AAC-2799.jpg

 

 

Ah! Well, I'm sure it was lovely. But if we did it, it'd have to be rather simple. Just thinking. And probably not necessary. Maybe I can just hang around the Oak with the Druid?

 

Aunt Jen

[BJT]

Ah! Well, I'm sure it was lovely. But if we did it, it'd have to be rather simple. Just thinking. And probably not necessary. Maybe I can just hang around the Oak with the Druid?

 

Aunt Jen

 

 

Anytime.

[axle shaff]

In the old west, what would there have been? Different buildings for different religions who raised the money for them.

 

I don't know what it would cost. Are they expensive? Can we get one from the Sears catalog?

 

If they're toooo expensive, then should we build another one that is multi-purpose?

 

If we were to raise money for a synagogue, that'd be cool. But I'm not orthodox, not into being separated from the men, etc.

 

Could we have an early easy-go synagogue with its Jewish propers, but not requiring that of me?

 

Baruch atah Adonai, Elohenu melech ha-olam....

 

Aunt Jen

[Utah Bob #35998]

This post confused me for a second But I get it now.