Touro Synagogue (New Orleans)
- Touro Synagogue (New Orleans)
Touro Synagogue is the name of a Reform synagogue in New Orleans, Louisiana, named after Judah Touro, Isaac Touro's son.
The New Orleans Touro Synagogue is one of the Oldest synagogues in the United States. The current synagogue was founded in 1828 from the merger of two older (originally Orthodox) congregations: the German Jewish Shangarai Chasset congregation, and Portuguese Jewish (Sephardic) Nefutzot Yehudah congregation.
ee also
* Touro Synagogue (Newport)
External links
* [http://www.tourosynagogue.com/ Touro Synagogue]
* [http://www.neworleanschurches.com/tourosyn/touro.htm Touro Synagogue — photo]
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