This is a list of notable synagogues in the United States.

By state

Alabama

* Agudath Israel Etz Ahayem, Montgomery * Temple Beth-El, Birmingham * Temple Beth-El, Anniston * Beth Israel Congregation, Gadsden * Knesseth Israel Congregation (Birmingham, Alabama) * Temple Beth Or, Montgomery * B'nai Jeshurun, Demopolis * Temple B'nai Sholom, Huntsville * Temple Emanu-El, Birmingham * Knesseth Israel, Mountain Brook (suburb of Birmingham) * Sha’arai Shomayim Congregation, Mobile

Alaska

* Congregation Or HaTzafon, Fairbanks * Congregation Beth Shalom, Anchorage * Alaska Jewish Campus, Anchorage * The David & Ruth Green Lubavitch Jewish Center of Alaska, Anchorage

Arizona

* Congregation Beth Israel (Scottsdale, Arizona) *

Jewish History Museum (Tucson) The Jewish History Museum, formerly known as the Jewish Heritage Center of the Southwest, is a museum housed in a historic synagogue building in Tucson, Arizona. The museum's building, which housed the first synagogue in the Arizona Territory, i ...

, is the oldest synagogue in the state *

Temple Emanu-El (Tucson) Temple Emanu-El is a Reform synagogue in Tucson, Arizona. It was the first synagogue in the Arizona Territory and is the oldest congregation in the state; Emanuel's original building, known as the Stone Avenue Temple, is the oldest synagogue bu ...

* Temple Emanuel of Tempe * Temple Beth Israel (Phoenix)

Arkansas

* Temple Shalom of Northwest Arkansas, Fayetteville *

Temple Meir Chayim Temple Meir Chayim is a historic Jewish synagogue at 4th and Holly Streets in McGehee, Arkansas. The two story brick building was built in 1947 to serve the Jewish community of McGehee, Dermott, and Eudora. The building style is a restrained Ro ...

, McGehee

California

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Temple Beth Israel (Fresno, California) Temple Beth Israel ( he, בית ישראל) is a Reform synagogue located at 6622 North Maroa Avenue in Fresno, California. Founded in 1919, it was the first and remains the oldest synagogue in the San Joaquin Valley.Aish HaTorah Aish HaTorah ( he, אש התורה, lit. "Fire of the Torah") is an Orthodox Jewish educational organization and yeshiva. History Aish HaTorah was established in Jerusalem in 1974 by Rabbi Noah Weinberg, after he left the Ohr Somayach yeshiva ...

Beth Chayim Chadashim Beth Chayim Chadashim (בית חיים חדשים, "House of New Life") was founded in Mid-City Los Angeles in 1972 as a synagogue primarily for lesbians and gays. Affiliated with Reform Judaism, it has been acknowledged by the Los Angeles Conser ...

Breed Street Shul Breed Street Shul, also known as Congregation Talmud Torah of Los Angeles or Breed Street Synagogue, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles, California. It was the largest Orthodox synagogue west of Chicago fr ...

* Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel * Sinai Temple (Los Angeles, California) * Temple Beth Israel of Highland Park and Eagle Rock * Temple Israel of Hollywood * Stephen Wise Temple * Valley Beth Shalom Synagogue *

Wilshire Boulevard Temple Wilshire Boulevard Temple, known from 1862 to 1933 as Congregation B'nai B'rith, is the oldest Jewish congregation in Los Angeles, California. Wilshire Boulevard Temple's main building, with a sanctuary topped by a large Byzantine revival dome an ...

Yeshiva Aharon Yaakov-Ohr Eliyahu Yeshiva Aharon Yaakov - Ohr Eliyahu (YAYOE) is a private Orthodox Jewish day school located in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, California. History Ohr Eliyahu Academy, originally called the Emanuel Streisand School of the Pacific Jewish Cent ...

* Yeshiva University High Schools of Los Angeles * Temple Sinai (Oakland, California) * Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center * Congregation B'nai Israel (Sacramento, California) * Congregation Beth Israel (San Diego) * San Diego Jewish Academy * Congregation Beth Israel-Judea * Beyt Tikkun Synagogue * Bush Street Temple * Congregation Emanu-El (San Francisco, California) *

Congregation Sherith Israel (San Francisco, California) Congregation Sherith Israel ("loyal remnant of Israel") is one of the oldest synagogues in the United States. It was established during California’s Gold Rush period and reflects the ambitions of early Jewish settlers to San Francisco. Today it ...

* Temple Israel (Stockton, California) * Congregation Ner Tamid,

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Congregation B'nai Israel (Daly City, California) Congregation B'nai Israel is the only Karaite Judaism, Karaite synagogue in the United States. It is located in Daly City, California. Malcolm Cohen served here for 19 years. See also *Karaite Judaism References External linksKaraite Jews of ...

* Congregation Beth Am (Los Altos Hills, California) *

Rodef Sholom (San Rafael, California) Congregation Rodef Sholom (transliterated from Hebrew language, Hebrew as "Pursuers of peace"Mishnah Avot 1:12) is a Reform Judaism, Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on the Lonee C. Hoytt Jewish Campus, at 170 North San Pedro, i ...

* Peninsula Temple Beth El (San Mateo, California)

Colorado

Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol-Beth Joseph Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol-Beth Joseph, known locally as BMH-BJ or simply BMH, and for a period after 2012 also known as The Denver Synagogue, is a Modern Orthodox, Zionist synagogue in Denver, Colorado. History Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol (BMH-the Grea ...

Denver Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the Unit ...

* Temple Emanuel, Denver * Temple Sinai (Denver, Colorado) * Temple Aaron,

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(1888 building) * Congregation Ohr Shalom (Grand Junction, Colorado)

Connecticut

* Achavath Achim Synagogue * Agudath Sholem Synagogue * Ahavas Sholem Synagogue * Anshei Israel Synagogue *

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Temple Beth Israel (Hartford, Connecticut) Temple Beth Israel is a historic Jewish synagogue building at 21 Charter Oak Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1875-76, it is the oldest purpose-built synagogue building in the state. The building was listed on the National Register of ...

* Congregation Beth Israel (West Hartford, Connecticut) *

Beth Israel Synagogue (New Haven, Connecticut) Congregation Beth Israel, also known as the Orchard Street Shul, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue at 232 Orchard Street in New Haven, Connecticut. The synagogue building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The congregation was ...

* Beth Israel Synagogue (Norwalk, Connecticut) * Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek * Congregation B'nai Jacob (Woodbridge, Connecticut) * Congregation Knesseth Israel (Ellington, Connecticut) * Congregation Mishkan Israel * Ohev Sholem Synagogue * Tephereth Israel Synagogue * TCS (The Conservative Synagogue) of Westport, CT

Delaware

District of Columbia

* Adas Israel Congregation, founded in 1869 *

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, DC's LGBTQ synagogue, founded in 1975 * DC Minyan, founded in 2002 * Hill Havurah, Capitol Hill synagogue, founded in 2000 * Kesher Israel Congregation, the Georgetown Synagogue, founded in 1911 * Machar, The Washington Congregation for Secular Humanistic Judaism,

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* Ohev Sholom - The National Synagogue, formerly Ohev Sholom Talmud Torah, formed in 1958 as a merger between Ohev Sholom Congregation, founded as Chai Adon Congregation in 1886, and Talmud Torah Congregation, founded in 1889 * Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, rededicated in 2004, housed in the building that served Adas Israel Congregation between 1908 and 1951 * Washington Hebrew Congregation, founded in 1852

Florida

* Ahavath Chesed competes with Temple Beth-El in Pensacola for the honor of being each the oldest Jewish congregation in Florida. The Jacksonville congregation was meeting for prayer by 1867, but appears to have incorporated later than Pensacola which dedicated its first building in 1876, well before Jacksonville's 1882 building. * Bet Shira Congregation * Temple Beth-El (Pensacola, Florida). See above under Jacksonville's Ahavath Chesed synagogue. * United Hebrews of Ocala. Their building, built in 1888, may be the oldest Florida synagogue building still standing. * Jewish Discovery Center of Brandon. A Chabad synagogue.

Georgia

* Congregation B'nai Torah of Sandy Springs, Georgia held its first services in 1981 * Congregation Mickve Israel of Savannah, Georgia was organized in 1733.

Hawaii

* Aloha Jewish Chapel, Pearl Harbor * Temple Emanu-El, Honolulu

Idaho

* Ahavath Beth Israel, Boise, Idaho (1896).Synagogue architecture in America: faith, spirit & identity By Henry Stolzman, Daniel Stolzma

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Illinois

* B'nai Jehoshua Beth Elohim (BJBE) One of the oldest and most influential congregations in the area, originally founded by Bohemian immigrants in 1893. *

KAM Isaiah Israel KAM Isaiah Israel is a Reform synagogue located at 1100 E. Hyde Park Boulevard in the historic Kenwood neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. It is the oldest Jewish congregation in Chicago, with its oldest core founded in 1847 as Kehilath Anshe M ...

merged several older congregations in Chicago, the oldest of which - Kehillat Anshe Maarav - was founded in 1847. * Loop Synagogue

Indiana

Ahavas Shalom Reform Temple Ahavas Shalom Reform Temple (originally, ''Ahavath Scholom'', also ''Ahavath Sholom'', "Lovers of Peace" or "Peace Loving")) is an historic synagogue building located in Ligonier, Noble County, Indiana at 503 Main Street, built in 1889. It is loc ...

* Congregation Achduth Vesholom of Fort Wayne was formed in 1848 * Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation

Iowa

B'nai Israel Synagogue (Council Bluffs, Iowa) B'nai Israel Synagogue is a synagogue in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places by its original name Chevra B'nai Yisroel Synagogue in 2007. History 19th century: Foundation of an Orthodo ...

B'nai Jacob Synagogue (Ottumwa, Iowa) B'nai Jacob Synagogue is a former Conservative synagogue in Ottumwa, Iowa. The originally Orthodox congregation was established in 1898, and it constructed the E. Main Street synagogue building in 1915, and joined the Conservative movement in ...

* Mount Sinai Temple (Sioux City, Iowa) * Temple Emanuel of Davenport was formed as B’Nai Israel Congregation on October 21, 1861. It is Iowa's oldest Jewish congregation still in existence. * Temple Judah (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)

Kansas

Kentucky

* Congregation Agudath Achim (Ashland, Kentucky))

Louisiana

Touro Synagogue (New Orleans) Touro Synagogue is a Reform synagogue in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was named after Judah Touro, the son of Isaac Touro, the namesake of the country's oldest synagogue, Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island. The New Orleans Touro Synagogue is ...

Maine

* Etz Chaim Synagogue, Portland, Maine * Shaarey Tphiloh, Portland, Maine

Maryland

* B'er Chayim Temple,

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* Ohev Sholom Talmud Torah Congregation of Olney,

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* Magen David Sephardic Congregation, Rockville, Maryland * Beth Am,

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, Baltimore City, Maryland * B'nai Israel, Rockville, Maryland * Young Israel Shomrai Emunah,

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Massachusetts

* Adams Street Shul,

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Ahavath Torah (Stoughton, Massachusetts) Ahavath Torah is a Conservative Judaism, Conservative synagogue located at 1179 Central Street, Stoughton, Massachusetts, Stoughton, Massachusetts, in the United States. Formed as a merger of two older congregations founded in the 1890s,Lambert, ...

Beth Israel Synagogue (Cambridge, Massachusetts) Beth Israel Synagogue is a historic former Jewish synagogue building at 238 Columbia Street in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. Built in 1901, it was the first and principal synagogue to serve the East Cambrid ...

Congregation Beth Israel (Worcester, Massachusetts) Congregation Beth Israel ( he, בית ישראל) is an egalitarian Conservative congregation located at 15 Jamesbury Drive in Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1924 as an Orthodox synagogue, it formally affiliated with the United Synagogue of ...

* Shaarai Torah Synagogue (Worcester, Massachusetts) *

Temple Emanuel Sinai (Worcester, Massachusetts) Temple Emanuel Sinai (Hebrew: עִמָנוּאֵל סִינַי, ''God is with us Sinai'') is a medium-sized Reform (progressive) Jewish synagogue located in Worcester, Massachusetts, New England's second largest city (population 206,518). A pro ...

Temple Israel (Boston, Massachusetts) Temple Israel is a Reform synagogue in the American city of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1854 as Adath Israel, the congregation is the largest Reform synagogue in Boston and New England. History * 1854: The congregation Temple Israel, o ...

* The Vilna Shul, Boston, Massachusetts * Congregation Or Atid,

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Michigan

* Temple Emanuel, Grand Rapids, oldest extant synagogue building (1882), congregation founded in 1857 (fifth oldest in the U.S.) * Temple Israel, West Bloomfield * Temple Beth El, Bloomfield Township

Minnesota

Mississippi

* Temple Adath Israel (Cleveland, Mississippi) *

Congregation Beth Israel (Meridian, Mississippi) Congregation Beth Israel in Meridian, Mississippi, is a Reform Judaism, Reform Jewish congregation founded in 1868 and a member of the Union for Reform Judaism. The congregation's first permanent house of worship was a Islamic architecture, Middl ...

* Beth Israel Congregation (Jackson, Mississippi) * Gemiluth Chessed (Port Gibson, Mississippi) * Temple B'nai Shalom (Brookhaven, Mississippi) * Temple B'nai Israel (Tupelo, Mississippi)

Missouri

* United Hebrew Congregation, 1837, is the oldest congregation in Missouri and west of the Mississippi River. * Congregation Shaare Emeth (Creve Coeur, Missouri), 1869. *

Congregation B'nai Amoona Congregation B'nai Amoona is an egalitarian Conservative synagogue, located at 324 South Mason Road, Creve Coeur, Missouri, in the United States. It evolved from a small Orthodox congregation of primarily German-speaking members into an Engli ...

(Creve Coeur, Missouri), 1882. * Temple Beth El, Jefferson City, MO, Continuous operation of the same location and building since 1883. * Congregation Temple Israel (Creve Coeur, Missouri), 1886. * B'Nai Israel Synagogue (Cape Girardeau, Missouri), 1937.

Montana

* Temple Emanu-El (Helena, Montana), built 1891, first and oldest synagogue in Montana, building now converted to other uses.

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

* Adas Emuno Congregation, Leonia, New Jersey * Congregation Ahavath Torah, Englewood, New Jersey * Congregation B'nai Israel, Millburn, NJ * Prince Street Synagogue,

Newark, New Jersey Newark ( , ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County and the second largest city within the New York metropolitan area.Oheb Shalom Congregation Oheb Shalom Congregation (Hebrew: Lovers of Peace) is an egalitarian, inclusive, diverse and multi-generational community that embraces Jewish tradition in the 21st Century. It is located in South Orange, New Jersey. Founded on Prince Street in New ...

, now used by an urban environmental center. * Temple Beth-El,

Jersey City, NJ Jersey City is the second-most populous city (New Jersey), city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark, New Jersey, Newark.

New Mexico

* Congregation Albert, founded in 1897, is the oldest continuing Jewish organization in New Mexico.

New York

* Agudas Achim Synagogue, Livingston Manor, NY *

Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue is a small former Orthodox Jewish synagogue located on Glen Wild Road, Sullivan County Route 58, in the unincorporated community of Glen Wild, New York, in the United States. The congregation was founded in 1913 by ...

, Sullivan County, NY *

B'nai Israel Synagogue (Woodbourne, New York) B'nai Israel Synagogue is a historic synagogue on NY 52 in Woodbourne, Town of Fallsburg, Sullivan County, New York. The first rabbi of the synagogue was David Isaac Godlin (1868-1943). It was built in 1920 and is a two-story building above a ...

B'nai Jeshurun (Manhattan, New York) B'nai Jeshurun is a synagogue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City. History Founded in 1825, Bnai Jeshurun was the second synagogue founded in New York and the third- oldest Ashkenazi synagogue in the United States. The synagogu ...

* Beth Joseph Synagogue, Tupper Lake, NY * Chevro Ahavath Zion Synagogue, Monticello, NY *

Congregation B'nai Israel Synagogue Congregation Bnai Israel Synagogue is a Conservative Judaism, Conservative synagogue located on Wagner Avenue in Fleischmanns, New York, Fleischmanns, New York (state), New York, in the United States. The wooden building dates from the 1920s, b ...

, Fleischmanns, NY *

Congregation Emanu-El of New York Congregation Emanu-El of New York is the first Reform Jewish congregation in New York City and, because of its size and prominence, has served as a flagship congregation in the Reform branch of Judaism since its founding in 1845. The congregati ...

, Manhattan, NY * Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, Manhattan, NY * Central Synagogue, Manhattan, NY * Congregation Shaare Zedek (New York City) * Congregation Shaare Zion, Brooklyn, NY *

Congregation Tifereth Israel Synagogue Congregation Tifereth Israel, officially Tifereth Israel Anshaei Greenport, is an unaffiliated Jewish congregation and historic synagogue, located at 519 Fourth Street in Greenport, Suffolk County, on Long Island, in New York, in the United St ...

, Greenport, NY *

Fifth Avenue Synagogue The Fifth Avenue Synagogue (קהלת עטרת צבי, Congregation Ateret Tsvi) is an Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 5 62nd Street (Manhattan), East 62nd Street between Fifth Avenue (Manhattan), Fifth and Madison Avenue (M ...

, Manhattan, NY * Jericho Jewish Center,

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* Kane Street Synagogue (Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes), Brooklyn, NY * North Country Reform Temple, Glen Cove, NY *

Park Avenue Synagogue The Park Avenue Synagogue ( he, אגודת ישרים, ''Agudat Yesharim'', The Association of the Righteous) is a Conservative Jewish congregation located at 50 East 87th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. Founded in 188 ...

, Manhattan, NY * Park East Synagogue, Manhattan, NY * Temple Beth-El, Hornell, New York (inactive) * Temple Beth Zion, Buffalo, NY *

Temple Shaaray Tefila Temple Shaaray Tefila ( – ''Gates of Prayer'') is a traditionally oriented Reform synagogue located at 250 East 79th Street (at the corner of 2nd Avenue) on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, New York City. The synagogue was founded in 184 ...

, Manhattan, NY * Temple Society of Concord, Syracuse, NY * Yeshiva Kesser Torah, Queens, NY

North Carolina

* Congregation Beth Israel (Asheville, North Carolina) * Congregation Emanuel (Statesville, North Carolina) *

Congregation Oheb Sholom (Goldsboro, North Carolina) Oheb Sholom is a Reform synagogue located in Goldsboro, North Carolina. It is one of fewer than a hundred nineteenth-century synagogues still standing in the United States, and the second oldest synagogue building in the state. History The congre ...

* Temple Israel (Charlotte, North Carolina) *

Temple Israel (Kinston, North Carolina) Temple Israel is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 1109 West Vernon Avenue, on the corner of Laroque Street, in Kinston, North Carolina, in the United States. Established by Eastern European Jews in 1903, it is one of the ...

* Temple of Israel (Wilmington, North Carolina)

North Dakota

B'nai Israel Synagogue and Montefiore Cemetery B'nai Israel Synagogue and Montefiore Cemetery in Grand Forks, North Dakota, in the United States, consists of a Reform Jewish congregation and its synagogue; and the congregation's related cemetery. Both the synagogue building and the cemetery ...

, Grand Forks, North Dakota

Ohio

Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple is a Reform Jewish temple in Beachwood, Ohio, the oldest existing Jewish congregation in the Cleveland area. The name Anshe Chesed is Hebrew for "People of Loving Kindness". The congregation's membership exceeded 2 ...

( Beachwood) * Oheb Zedek-Cedar Sinai Synagogue ( Lyndhurst) * Park Synagogue (

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) * The

Rockdale Temple The Rockdale Temple, Kahal Kadosh Bene Israel (19th-century spelling K. K. Benai Israel), is the oldest Jewish congregation west of the Allegheny Mountains, the oldest congregation in Ohio, the second oldest Ashkenazi congregation in the United St ...

(1824), originally known as K.K. Bene Israel in

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, is the oldest congregation west of the

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and the second oldest Ashkenazi congregation in the United States. * Sherith Israel Temple, also in Cincinnati (1860) is the oldest synagogue structure west of the Alleghenies. *

Temple Tifereth-Israel Temple Tifereth-Israel is a Reform Jewish synagogue in Beachwood, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb. It was founded in 1850 as Tifereth Israel (Glory of Israel) and was a founding member of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (now the Union for Ref ...

( Beachwood)

Oklahoma

Oregon

* Temple Beth Israel, Eugene, Oregon * Congregation Beth Israel, Portland, Oregon * Neveh Shalom Synagogue, Portland, Oregon

Pennsylvania

* Congregation Mikveh Israel, congregation founded in 1740s in Philadelphia * Congregation Kehillas B'nai Shalom (Bucks County) * Congregation Rodeph Shalom, on the NRHP * Beth Shalom Congregation, Synagogue building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright * Kesher Israel Congregation, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania * Kesher Zion, Reading, Pennsylvania * Congregation Shivtei Yeshuron-Ezras Israel, Oldest active South Philadelphia rowhouse shul * Temple Sinai,

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Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation () is a Conservative Jewish synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The congregation moved into its present synagogue building in 1953. It merged with Congregation Or L'S ...

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, Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

* Sons of Jacob Synagogue (Providence, Rhode Island) * Temple Beth-El (Providence, Rhode Island) * Touro Synagogue (Newport, Rhode Island) is the oldest surviving synagogue in North America.

South Carolina

* Congregation Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, Charleston, South Carolina * Temple Beth Elohim (Georgetown, South Carolina) *

Beth Israel Congregation (Beaufort, South Carolina) Beth Israel Congregation (or Beth Israel Synagogue) is a historic Conservative Judaism, Conservative synagogue located at 401 Scott Street in Beaufort, South Carolina. Built in 1908, it is one of the few wooden synagogues in continued usage in th ...

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* House of Peace Synagogue, Columbia, South Carolina * Temple Sinai (Sumter, South Carolina)

Tennessee

Temple Adas Israel (Brownsville, Tennessee) Temple Adas Israel is a historic synagogue located at the intersection of Washington and College streets in Brownsville, Tennessee, Brownsville, West Tennessee. Built in 1882 by German Jewish immigrants and descendants, it is the Oldest synagogue ...

* Baron Hirsch Synagogue, Memphis, Tennessee *

Temple Israel (Memphis, Tennessee) Temple Israel is a Reform Jewish congregation in Memphis, Tennessee, in the United States. It is the only Reform synagogue in Memphis, the oldest and largest Jewish congregation in Tennessee, and one of the largest Reform congregations in the U.S ...

Mizpah Congregation The Mizpah congregation is a Reform Jewish synagogue in Chattanooga, Tennessee. History A Jewish settlement in Chattanooga can be traced back to before the US Civil War. However, it wasn't until after the war that the Jewish community was really ...

, Chattanooga, Tennessee *

Congregation Ohabai Sholom (Nashville, Tennessee) Congregation Ohabai Sholom, known as The Temple, is a Reform Jewish synagogue located at 5015 Harding Pike, in Nashville, Tennessee, in the United States. Founded in the 1840s, the congregation is notable for the elaborate, Moorish Revival Vine S ...

* Congregation Sherith Israel (Nashville, Tennessee) * Temple B'Nai Israel, Jackson, Tennessee

Texas

B'nai Abraham Synagogue (Brenham, Texas) The B'nai Abraham congregation in Brenham, Texas, was organized in 1885. History Early Jewish settlers in the Washington County, Texas, arrived during the 1860s. B. Levinson, an original founder, arrived in 1861. Alex Simon arrived in 1866. Thes ...

, founded in 1885. *The 1870 building of Congregation B'nai Israel (Galveston, Texas), is the oldest synagogue building. * Temple Beth Israel (Houston, Texas), founded in 1854, is the oldest congregation in the state. *

Congregation Beth Yeshurun (Houston, Texas) Congregation Beth Yeshurun is a Conservative synagogue in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1891 as Adath Yeshurun, it merged in Congregation Beth El in 1946, taking its current name. In 2002 Beth Yeshurun absorbed the membership of Shearith Israel of ...

is one of the largest Conservative synagogues in the world. * Temple Sinai (Houston, Texas), was the first Reform Synagogue to be established in West Houston.

Utah

* B'nai Israel Temple (Salt Lake City, Utah) * Congregation Kol Ami (Salt Lake City, Utah) * Congregation Sharey Tzedek Synagogue

Vermont

* Ohavi Zedek (Burlington) * Rutland Jewish Center

Virginia

* Agudas Achim Congregation (Alexandria, Virginia)

Washington

Congregation Beth Israel (Bellingham, Washington) Congregation Beth Israel ( he, בית ישראל) is a Reform Judaism, Reform synagogue located at 751 San Juan Boulevard in Bellingham, Washington. It is one of the oldest synagogues in Western Washington. Formally established in 1908, the cong ...

* Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath * Temple De Hirsch Sinai * Congregation Ezra Bessaroth *

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* Ohaveth Sholum Congregation * Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation

West Virginia

Temple Shalom (Wheeling, West Virginia) Temple Shalom is a Reform Jewish synagogue located at 23 Bethany Pike, Wheeling, West Virginia, in the United States. The congregation dates from 1849, with the current synagogue building completed in 1957, as the Woodside Temple. History Templ ...

Wisconsin

Wyoming

By territory

American Samoa

Guam

Northern Mariana Islands

Puerto Rico

*Temple Beth Shalom, San Juan, PR

U.S. Virgin Islands

*St. Thomas Synagogue, St. Thomas, VI

References

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