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Congregation Adath Jeshurun is an historic former
synagogue A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans. It is a place for prayer (the main sanctuary and sometimes smaller chapels) where Jews attend religious services or special ceremonies such as wed ...
, serving as a
church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian comm ...
since 1967, at 397 Blue Hill Avenue in the Roxbury neighborhood of
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,
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, in the United States. The congregation was formed in 1894. As the Jewish community of Roxbury gradually moved away, its congregation dwindled and in 1967 it was sold to Ecclesia Apostolic Church. It was purchased by its present owner, the First Haitian Baptist Church, in 1978. The church has restored it to its present condition. The
Romanesque Revival Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended t ...
style building was designed in 1906 by Frederick Norcross and built by David Krokyn and added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1999.


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* 1894 establishments in Massachusetts 20th-century synagogues in the United States Baptist churches in Boston Churches completed in 1967 Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Former synagogues in Massachusetts Jewish organizations established in 1894 Romanesque Revival synagogues Roxbury, Boston National Register of Historic Places in Boston Synagogues completed in 1906 Synagogues on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts {{US-synagogue-stub