Congregation Mickve Israel

Congregation Mickve Israel
Congregation Mickve Israel
	Mickve Israel synagogue, in 2022
Religion
Affiliation	Reform Judaism
Ecclesiastical or organisational status	Synagogue
Leadership	Rabbi Robert Haas
Status	Active
Location
Location	20 East Gordon Street; (also listed as 428 Bull Street), Monterey Square, Savannah, Georgia
Country	United States
	Location in Georgia
Geographic coordinates	32°04′16″N 81°05′39″W / 32.07104°N 81.09427°W
Architecture
Architect(s)	Henry G. Harrison
Type	Synagogue
Style	Gothic Revival
Date established	1733 (as a congregation)
Completed	1820 (Liberty St. #1); 1841 (Liberty St. #2); 1878 (E. Gordon St.);
Materials	Gilded gold, marble, ivory
Website
	mickveisrael.org
	Congregation Mickve Israel
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district; Contributing property
Part of	Savannah Historic District (ID66000277)
NRHP reference No.	80004646[failed verification]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	December 24, 1980[failed verification]
Designated CP	November 13, 1966

Congregation Mickve Israel (transliterated from Hebrew as "Congregation for the Hope of Israel") is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 20 East Gordon Street,^[a] Monterey Square, in Savannah, Georgia, in the United States. The site also contains a Jewish history museum.

Organized in 1735 by mostly Sephardic Jewish immigrants of Spanish-Portuguese extraction from London who arrived in the new colony in 1733, it is one of the oldest congregations in the United States. The current synagogue was consecrated in 1878, completed in the Gothic Revival-style. The synagogue building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980^{[failed verification]} and is a contributing property of the Savannah Historic District.^[2]

The congregation has been a member of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (and its successor organizations) since January 10, 1904.^[3]

^ ^a ^b "Mickve Israel Synagogue, 428 Bull Street, Savannah, Chatham County, GA". Collections: Historic American Buildings Survey; Engineering Record; Landscapes Survey. Library of Congress. n.d. Retrieved January 11, 2024.
^ ^a ^b Rogers, Jerry L. (January 23, 1969). "Savannah Historic District: Nomination Form" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved January 11, 2024 – via National Archives and Records Administration Catalog for Georgia.
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[LoC-1] "Mickve Israel Synagogue, 428 Bull Street, Savannah, Chatham County, GA". Collections: Historic American Buildings Survey; Engineering Record; Landscapes Survey. Library of Congress. n.d. Retrieved January 11, 2024.

[cp-2] Rogers, Jerry L. (January 23, 1969). "Savannah Historic District: Nomination Form" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved January 11, 2024 – via National Archives and Records Administration Catalog for Georgia.

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