Temple Beth Shalom, Santa Fe's First Synagogue
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In the 1930s, a small group of business owners in Santa Fe started a branch of B’nai B’rith, which means “sons of the covenant” in Hebrew. The oldest Jewish service organization in the world, it was started in 1843 on New York’s Lower East Side. During the early days in Santa Fe the group met in met in stores, libraries, and churches. As the decade wore on and new people arrived in town to work on the Manhattan Project, the Jewish community grew substantially. It was then that the members of B’nai B’rith formed a committee to organize a congregation. On December 5, 1946, the Santa Fe Jewish Temple was established. In attendance were Julius Cans, Dan Taichert, Marcel Pick, Marcia Hertsmark, Louis Rubinstein, Albert Kahn, and Emil Pick. By 1949 there were some 30 families, and the organization became the Santa Fe Jewish Temple and Community Center. The temple opened in 1956, and later that year a Jewish section was added at Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Architect John Gaw Meem, who is famous for his Pueblo Revival buildings throughout New Mexico, designed the building on Barcelona Street. It retained that name until 1970, when it was renamed Temple Beth Shalom, which means “house of peace” in Hebrew.
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