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An East Village Synagogue Building Saved
…(anshe Mezritch means people of Mezritch; Mezritch is a town in what is now Ukraine) previously occupied a building on Clinton Street in the Lower East Side. The 1910 conversion…
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Uncovering the stories behind downtown’s overlooked synagogues
On August 8, 2008, Village Preservation and the East Village Community Coalition (EVCC) submitted a request to the LPC to landmark a little-known but remarkable survivor– Congregation Mezritch Synagogue at…
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Saving Sacred Spaces
…Anshe Mezritch Synagogue, or Congregation Mezritch Synagogue, was founded in 1888 on the Lower East Side, and constructed its current temple at 415 East 6th Street in 1910. The handsome…
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Architecture of the Spirit
…institutions have made to the character of our communities. Just some of the building sites we’ve researched and advocated for the preservation of include: The Congregation Mezritch Synagogue Congregation Mezritch…
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Walking East 3rd Street: Tenement Synagogues & Jewish Life
…our research, we came to believe that nearby Congregation Mezritch Synagogue, located at 415 East 6th Street, was the last functioning tenement synagogue on the Lower East Side, but our…
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Five Hundred Years Ago, The First Ghetto Is Founded
…East Village. GVSHP advocated strongly for designation of the district and its expansion to include more than a dozen additional sites. Clockwise from upper left: Congregation Mezritch Synagogue; Town &…
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The First Ghetto Is Founded, and the Reverberations are Felt Centuries Later
…strongly for designation of the district and its expansion to include more than a dozen additional sites. Clockwise from upper left: Congregation Mezritch Synagogue; Town & Village Synagogue/Congregation Tifereth Israel;…
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Thank You To Our Members — Making 40 Years of Village Preservation Possible
…height limits on new development in the neighborhood and eliminated the zoning bonus for dormitories and other university facilities. 2010s Supporters gather outside of the Mezritch Synagogue to protest. In…
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Echoes of Eldridge Street Synagogue on East Eleventh Street
…in the Lower East Side, unlike the Congregation Mezritch Synagogue at 415 East 6th Street and the Sixth Street Community Synagogue in the proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic District,…
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East Village History: Some Protected, Some Not
…and Congregation Mezritch Synagogue at 415 East 6th Street in the newly designated East Village/Lower East Side Historic District. You can see the proposals for these applications and learn more…
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The Mystery Behind Henington Hall
…created for the area’s Jewish residents. Horenburger in a few short years would be commissioned to redesign the facade of a rowhouse into Mezritch Synagogue, which became part of the…
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The Synagogues of East 6th Street
…to the German community leaving this neighborhood for the Upper East Side’s Yorkville. In 1940 the building became home to the Community Synagogue. Congregation Mezritch, 415 East 6th Street, between…
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Jared Kushner’s (Preservation) Record
…accusations of peddling anti-semitism. Neighborhood, preservation, and jewish community leaders gathered in 2008 to save Mezritch Synagogue from Kushner’s demolition plan. The good news is, Mr. Kushner has done nothing…
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Congregation Beth Hamedrash Hagadol Anshe Ungarn
…became a New York City Landmark (click HERE for the designation report). To learn about our efforts for the designation of another Lower East Side synagogue, Congregation Mezritch, click HERE)….
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15 things you didn’t know about the East Village
…to residences in 1985 (after the building was abandoned for over a decade), and the Mezritch Synagogue at 415 East 6th Street, a building saved from demolition in 2008 and landmarked in…
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