First Roumanian-American Congregation
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The First Roumanian-American congregation, also known as Congregation Shaarey Shamoyim, or the Roumanishe Shul, (Yiddish for "Romanian synagogue") is an Orthodox Jewish congregation which, for over 100 years, occupied a historic building at 89 93 Rivington Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York. Those who organized the congregation in 1885 were part of a substantial wave of Romanian-Jewish immigrants, most of whom settled in the Lower East Side. The Rivington Street building, built around 1860, had previously been a church, then a synagogue, then a church again, and had been…mehr

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The First Roumanian-American congregation, also known as Congregation Shaarey Shamoyim, or the Roumanishe Shul, (Yiddish for "Romanian synagogue") is an Orthodox Jewish congregation which, for over 100 years, occupied a historic building at 89 93 Rivington Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York. Those who organized the congregation in 1885 were part of a substantial wave of Romanian-Jewish immigrants, most of whom settled in the Lower East Side. The Rivington Street building, built around 1860, had previously been a church, then a synagogue, then a church again, and had been extensively remodeled in 1889. It was transformed into a synagogue for a second time when the First Roumanian-American congregation purchased it in 1902 and again remodeled it. The synagogue became famous as the "Cantor's Carnegie Hall", because of its high ceiling, good acoustics, and seating for up to 1,800 people. Yossele Rosenblatt, Moshe Koussevitzky, Zavel Kwartin, Moishe Oysher, Jan Peerce and Richard Tucker were all cantors there. Red Buttons sang in the choir, George Burns was a member, and Edward G. Robinson had his Bar Mitzvah there.