B'nai Abraham Jewish Temple

ID: 909 ~ Source: https://www.yourppl.org/history/items/show/2965 ~ Creator: Terry Stevenson II ~ Date: 2014

This file appears in: Portsmouth's Second Synagogue and Jewish Life in the Mid-twentieth Century

B'nai Abraham Jewish Temple, located on 802 Gay Street. Built in 1925 the B'nai Abraham Jewish Temple provided a much needed spacious environment for the congregation to worship and grow. The congregation continued to use the temple until they sold it in 1975 to the First Evangel Assembly of God.

This file appears in: Portsmouth's Second Synagogue and Jewish Life in the Mid-twentieth Century

Portsmouth's Second Synagogue and Jewish Life in the Mid-twentieth Century

By Austin Reid

During the 1910s and 1920s Portsmouth’s Jewish community experienced a period of growth. In 1919, an estimated 150 people attended Rosh Hashanah services at Beneh Abraham. This same year, a new Jewish organization, B’nai B’rith, was created in…