Amazing museum! Terrific place! Recommend! We took a tour with docent - do this if you want to know details of history of the building and street, and people! Was happy to visit it he museum!
December 2023
Beautiful! And fantastic, friendly and knowledgeable tour guide. Thanks Michael!
December 2023
This is a beautiful building, reminiscent of all of the synagogues in Europe that were destroyed during Kristallnacht. My grandparents were married in a synagogue in Vienna that no longer exists, and this synagogue is as close a replica that I could have possibly found. So lucky that I found it.
The Museum at Eldridge Street is housed in the historic Eldridge Street Synagogue. Built in 1887, it is an architectural marvel and a symbol of immigrant aspirations realized. The building is the first grand synagogue purpose-built by Eastern European Jewish immigrants in the United States, and was nearly lost to neglect before the Museum’s 20-year, $20 million restoration project returned the space to glory and public use.
Visitors are welcome to tour the National Historic Landmark and learn about its time as a cultural hotspot in the bustling Jewish Lower East Side, to its decades of decay, to its miraculous rebirth as a 21st-century Museum in present day Chinatown.
