Temple Adath Israel (Owensboro, Kentucky)

	Temple Adath Israel
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Front and southern side
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Location	429 Daviess St., Owensboro, Kentucky
Coordinates	37°46′18″N 87°6′34″W / 37.77167°N 87.10944°WCoordinates: 37°46′18″N 87°6′34″W / 37.77167°N 87.10944°W
Area	0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built	1877
Architectural style	Late Victorian, Eclectic
MPS	Owensboro MRA
NRHP reference No.	86000761
Added to NRHP	March 28, 1986

Temple Adath Israel, is a synagogue in Owensboro, Kentucky. The Moorish Revival facade of the modest building features a gothic-arched door flanked by a pair of gothic-arched windows punctuated by four pilasters. These are surmounted with molded capitals and fanciful embellishments and the whole is topped by a whimsical row of four, small, onion domed turrets. The synagogue was built in 1877.^[2]

It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[3] It is among the oldest synagogue buildings still standing in the United States.^[4]

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^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ Amy Hill Shevitz, Jewish Communities on the Ohio River: A History, University of Kentucky Press, 2007, p. 191.
^ Temple Adath Israel, Archiplanet website. Accessed March 31, 2009.
^ Mark W. Gordon, "Rediscovering Jewish Infrastructure: Update on United States Nineteenth Century Synagogues", American Jewish History, 84.1 (1996) 11-27. 2019 article update.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[2] Amy Hill Shevitz, Jewish Communities on the Ohio River: A History, University of Kentucky Press, 2007, p. 191.

[3] Temple Adath Israel, Archiplanet website. Accessed March 31, 2009.

[4] Mark W. Gordon, "Rediscovering Jewish Infrastructure: Update on United States Nineteenth Century Synagogues", American Jewish History, 84.1 (1996) 11-27. 2019 article update.

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Temple Adath Israel (Owensboro, Kentucky)

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