Museum at Eldridge Street

Discover the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue, a breath-taking National Historic Landmark located on New York City’s Lower East Side offering an intimate, authentic portal to the past for people of all backgrounds. Step into the footsteps of the synagogue’s immigrant founders. Explore digital displays. Discover how the immigrant experience transformed and continues to transform communities today.

The Eldridge Street Synagogue opened its doors at 12 Eldridge Street on September 4, 1887, just in time for the Jewish High Holidays. Hundreds of newly arrived immigrants from Russia and Poland gathered here to pray, socialize and build a community. It was the first time in America that Jews of Eastern Europe had built a synagogue from the ground up.

Today the Eldridge Street Synagogue is home to the Museum at Eldridge Street, which welcomes people from around the world for tours, school programs, concerts, lectures, festivals and other cultural events. The building also continues to be home to Kahal Adath Jeshurun. This small Orthodox congregation has never missed a Saturday or holiday service in the more than 120 years since the synagogue first opened.

Location

12 Eldridge Street
New York, NY 10002