Congregation Mickve Israel
by Allen Beatty
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Congregation Mickve Israel
Artist
Allen Beatty
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Photograph - Photography
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The oldest congregation now practicing Reform Judaism in the United States, Mickve Israel was founded in 1733 by group of Jews, mainly of Spanish-Poutugese extraction, who landed in Savannah five months after the establishment of the colony of Georgia. The Congregation was incorporated in perpetuity by a special Act of the Georgia Legislature on November 20, 1790. After having worshipped in various temporary quarters for almost a century, the Congregation built its own Synagogue in 1820 at the northeast corner of Liberty and Whitaker Streets. The present building was consecrated on April 11, 1878.
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