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Synagogue records and registers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Congregation Agudas Sholom (The Walnut Street Shul) (Chelsea, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: JHCI-024
Abstract Congregation Agudas Sholom or Agudath Shalom (known colloquially as the Walnut Street Shul or Synagogue) was chartered in 1887 by a minyan as Ohabei Shalom of Chelsea. In 1901, the congregation purchased a property at Walnut St and 5th. After the building was destroyed in the Great Chelsea Fire of 1908, the congregations of Agudas Achim and Ohabei Shalom of Chelsea merged membership and formed Congregation Agudas Sholom. This collection contains the business and activity records of Agudas...
Dates: 1924-1994

Congregation Anshe Sefard (Boston, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-269
Abstract

The collection consists of an illustrated Pinkas (1924-1934), which contains the congregation's by-laws, a list of officers, lists of men and women members, a list of contributions, and lists of yahrzeits. Also includes a record book of minutes of meetings and finances (1924-1944). The entries in the record book are in Yiddish (1924-1936) and English (1936-1944).

Dates: 1924-1944