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Unknown Builder (1891 ca.)

Maxwell Street Presbyterian Church/ Ohavay Zion Synagogue/Joe Bologna's: Sanctuary
120 West Maxwell Street
Lexington, KY

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)


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1980 - Exterior of building while it was Ohavay Zion Synagogue (Photograph by https://smileypete.com/community/2012-04-14-ohavay-zion-synagogue-celebrates-100-years/, submitted by Rev. Dr. Van Herd/Rev. Dr. Van Herd)

Notes

2021-06-27 - From https://www.isjl.org/kentucky-lexington-encyclopedia.html: "In 1912, they were chartered as the Ohavay Zion Congregation. Nathan Rogers, a wholesale dry goods merchant, was their first president. The group soon bought the former Maxwell Street Presbyterian Church and turned it into a synagogue. The congregation auctioned off pews to raise money to redecorate the building. **They had to remove the church organ**, among other things, in order to make the building into an Orthodox synagogue. Ohavay Zion finally dedicated its synagogue in 1914." -Rev. Dr. Van Herd


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