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Rodef Shalom Temple, 4905 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 1908.
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In 1847 twelve men founded the Bes Almon Society, the earliest Jewish organization in Pittsburgh. Shaare Shamayim, the first synagogue in Pennsylvania west of the Alleghenies, was formed the next year. Rodef Shalom, the oldest active Jewish Congregation in western Pennsylvania, was chartered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1856.

Credit: Courtesy of the Rodef Shalom Congregation Archives. Pittsburgh, PA

Jewish merchants and soldiers first appeared on the western Pennsylvania frontier in the 1750s. Pittsburgh's Rodef Shalom, the oldest active Jewish Congregation in western Pennsylvania, was chartered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1856. In 1908 the congregation moved into this new temple, designed by architect Henry Hornbostel.

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