This photo shows the synagogue around 1905, at its original location at Sixth and G Streets, NW. The large Pension Building (today's National Building Museum), built in 1886, is one block away. The Capitol and Library of Congress are in the background.

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This file appears in: Adas Israel Synagogue
This photo shows the synagogue around 1905, at its original location at Sixth and G Streets, NW. The large Pension Building (today's National Building Museum), built in 1886, is one block away. The Capitol and Library of Congress are in the background.
This file appears in: Adas Israel Synagogue

During its early years, the Adas Israel Congregation, composed of 35 families, met and worshiped in the homes of its members or in rented quarters. On August 16, 1870, the congregation's trustees, recorded in the deed as Manasses Oppenheimer, L.…