page_title: Old Beth Israel Synagogue (Greenville, South Carolina)
hierarchical_section_title: Old Beth Israel Synagogue (Greenville, South Carolina)
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of former Beth Israel Synagogue, in Greenville, South Carolina, USA, repurposed as a private residence. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 16000292
context_page_description: The Old Beth Israel Synagogue is a historic religious building at 307 Townes Street in the Stone Avenue neighborhood of Greenville, South Carolina. It is a single-story Classical Revival brick building with stone trim. This first Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Greenville was designed by Joseph Cunningham, a local architect, and built in 1929-30 for a congregation founded in 1910. The congregation moved to a larger space in 1957.
  Grace Evangelical Methodist Church moved into the building in 1959, and its name remains above the entrance arch. In 1964, the building became the home of the Greenville Labor Temple Cooperative; and in 1977, Faith Tabernacle Apostolic Church bought the building and held its first service there in May 1978. A photo studio bought the building in 1988 and sold it in 2004. Although the building was originally located in a residential area, commercial development and urban renewal isolated it, and it was abandoned in 2010. In 2015 the building was restored and repurposed as a private residence for a married couple, the entrepreneurs Melinda Lehman and Terry Iwaskiw.
context_section_description: The Old Beth Israel Synagogue is a historic religious building at 307 Townes Street in the Stone Avenue neighborhood of Greenville, South Carolina. It is a single-story Classical Revival brick building with stone trim. This first Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Greenville was designed by Joseph Cunningham, a local architect, and built in 1929-30 for a congregation founded in 1910. The congregation moved to a larger space in 1957. 
  Grace Evangelical Methodist Church moved into the building in 1959, and its name remains above the entrance arch. In 1964, the building became the home of the Greenville Labor Temple Cooperative; and in 1977, Faith Tabernacle Apostolic Church bought the building and held its first service there in May 1978. A photo studio bought the building in 1988 and sold it in 2004. Although the building was originally located in a residential area, commercial development and urban renewal isolated it, and it was abandoned in 2010. In 2015 the building was restored and repurposed as a private residence for a married couple, the entrepreneurs Melinda Lehman and Terry Iwaskiw. No evidence of the building’s use as a synagogue remains except for a small brick-and-tile Star of David on either side of the parapet. 
  The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
caption: Former Beth Israel Synagogue in 2020 after being repurposed as a private residence.
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