2002-09-09 - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Sebastian Glück via the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project/Database Manager)
2002-09-09 - Exterior (Photograph from the NYC AGO Organ Project/Database Manager)
2004-12-21 - Information identifying this instrument from the Austin Organs, Inc. web site, accessed December 20, 2004: http://www.austinorgans.com/organ-research.htm. -Database Manager
2014-08-06 - Installed in the West End Synagogue in 1937; moved to the present location in 1959 using the congregation's official name of Shaaray Tefila. -Database Manager
2019-12-17 - From the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project: The congregation's present sanctuary, located on the corner of East 79th Street and Second Avenue, was was originally built as the Colony movie theatre, later to become a Trans-Lux theatre. The shell of the theatre was converted for use as a synagogue, as designed by John J. McNamara and Horace Ginsbern & Associates, and was dedicated on September 25, 1959. Since moving to the East Side, the congregation reverted to its original and legal name of Shaaray Tefila. The organ was originally built in 1937 by Austin Organs for the West End Synagogue on West 82nd Street. When the congregation relocated in 1959 to their present synagogue, the organ was also moved. -Database Manager
Stoplist from <i>The New York City Organ Project</i>, NYC AGO website Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
New York, New York
Temple Shaaray Tefila
Austin Op. 1829 1937 2/22
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GREAT SWELL
8' Open Diapason 61 16' Lieblich Gedeckt 73
8' 2nd Diapason 61 8' Diapason 73
8' Clarabella 61 8' Stopped Flute 73
8' Dulciana 61 8' Salicional 73
8' Unda Maris 61 8' Viole Celeste 61
4' Octave 61 4' Flute d'Amour 73
4' Harmonic Flute 61 2 2/3' Nasard Flute 7
III Mixture 183 2' Piccolo 61
8' Tromba 61 8' Oboe Horn 73
Sub 8' Vox Humana 61
Unison Off Tremulant
Super Sub
Unison Off
PEDAL Super
16' Subbass 32
16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
8' Flute 12
8' Gedeckt SW
[Received from Jeff Scofield August 6, 2014]
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