Religious Organizations Established in 1907 - Congregation Tifereth Israel, Congregation Beth Israel, Church of God in Christ (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Congregation Tifereth Israel, Congregation Beth Israel, Church of God in Christ, St. Florian Church, American Baptist Churches USA, Spirit of Jesus Church, Hunter Street Baptist Church, Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, Northern Illinois District, Canadian Baptists of Western Canada, St. John the Martyr's Church, St. Athanasius's Church, Greek Byzantine Catholic Church, The Way, The Peoples Church of East Lansing, Southern Illinois District, Central Illinois District, Temple Beth-El, Black and Indian Mission office, Congregation Schara Tzedeck, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ, Our Lady of Mercy's Church, Society of Christian Doctrine, Evangelical Church of Maraland, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Uberaba, Roman Catholic Diocese of Campanha, St. Mark the Evangelist's Church, National Primitive Baptist Convention of the U.S.A., United Methodist Church, Brazilian Baptist Convention. Excerpt: Congregation Tifereth Israel ("Splendor of Israel") is an Orthodox synagogue located in the Corona section of Queens, New York. It was founded by Ashkenazi Jews who had moved to Queens from Manhattan's Lower East Side. Estee Lauder and her parents were early members. The congregation constructed its synagogue building in 1911, a wooden Gothic and Moorish revival structure designed by Crescent L. Varrone, and modeled after the narrow tenement synagogues built on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The walls were later stuccoed. Neighborhood demographics changed, and most Jews moved away starting in the 1970s. By the 1990s, the remaining congregation was aged, and had difficulty paying for synagogue repairs and finding enough men for a prayer quorum. Bukharan Jews began moving to Corona in the 1990s, and in the mid-1990s began worshiping in Tifereth Israel's basement. Disputes between the old congregation and the Bukharan Jews and their new r...