The Mosholu Jewish Center was an

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Jewish community center and

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located at 3044 Hull Avenue, in the

Norwood, Bronx Norwood, also known as Bainbridge, is a working-class residential neighborhood in the northwest Bronx, New York City. It is bound by Van Cortlandt Park and Woodlawn Cemetery to the north, the Bronx River to the east, and Mosholu Parkway to the so ...

neighborhood in New York City. The building is now used as a pre-school.

History

The synagogue was founded in 1927, and closed in 1999 due to the declining Jewish population of the Bronx.

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led the congregation from 1947 to its 1999 close. The Neo-Renaissance building was sold to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York in 2000 and repurposed in 2003 as the Head Start pre-school program.

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