Breed Street Shul
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Congregation Talmud Torah of Los Angeles
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Breed Street Shul
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| Location | 247 N. Breed St., Los Angeles, California |
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| Coordinates | 34°2′48″N 118°12′31″W / 34.04667°N 118.20861°WCoordinates: 34°2′48″N 118°12′31″W / 34.04667°N 118.20861°W |
| Built | 1915 or 1923 |
| Architect | Abram M. Edelman; et al. |
| Architectural style | Byzantine Revival; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, Other |
| NRHP Reference # | 01001192 |
| LAHCM # | 359 |
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| Added to NRHP | November 4, 2001 |
| Designated LAHCM | 1988 |
Breed Street Shul, also known as Congregation Talmud Torah of Los Angeles or Breed Street Synagogue, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles, California. It was the largest Orthodox synagogue west of Chicago from 1915 to 1951, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Congregation Talmud Torah began 114 Rose street in 1904 as a Hebrew school and synagogue, and about 1910-1913 began to move east following its new immigrant population into Boyle Heights. In 1915, a wood-framed building was dedicated for use as a school and chapel and became known as the "Breed Street Shul." The Jewish population grew from a few hundred in 1910 to 10,000 in 1930.
As the size of the congregation grew, a new synagogue was built, designed by the architectural firm of Edelman and Barnett. The original wood structure was moved to the back of the lot to make room for the new brick structure which opened in 1923. The new synagogue was built from unreinforced masonry with veneer brick and cast stone embellishments on the facade. The facade includes alternating bands of dichromatic brickwork, "dense prickly foliage carving, other organic motifs and Stars of David in bas relief cast stone detail.
The Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles, located east of downtown, was home to the city's most populous Jewish community from 1910 to 1950. The area around Breed Street Shul became a center for the Jewish community. The business district on Brooklyn Avenue (renamed Cesar Chavez Avenue in 1995) just north of the Shul was the location of many kosher butchers, bakeries, delis, bookstores and other shops catering to the Jewish community. The Breed Street block where the Shul was located also became home of the Los Angeles Jewish Academy and Mount Sinai Clinic (a forerunner of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center).
In 1945, Rabbi Osher Zilberstein of Breed Street Shul opened the city's first Jewish parochial elementary school. When Israel was established as an independent nation in 1948, Breed Street Shul was the site of a solemn ceremony in which the new flag of Israel was flown for the first time in Los Angeles.
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