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Greater Shaare Torah and Community Center  image

Greater Shaare Torah and Community Center

Planning a synagogue Caption: "Planning a synagogue: The Congregation Shaare Torah will have a million dollar synagogue and center soon at E. 21st St. and Albemarle Road. Ground will be broken on Sept. 26. Talking over the plans are: left to right, seated, Rabbi Joseph Miller and Louis E. Linden, president of the congregation. Standing: Edward S. Pressman and Municipal Court Justice Charles H. Breitbart."
Greater Shaare Torah and Community Center  image

Greater Shaare Torah and Community Center

Ground-breakers Caption: "Ground-breakers: Louis J. Lefcourt, Municipal Court Justice Charles H. Breitbart, Louis E. Linden, Abe Stark and Borough President Cashmore (left to right), turn with golden shovels ground for the $1,000,000 synagogue and community center of Congregation Shaare Torah of Flatbush."
Greater Shaare Torah and Community Center  image

Greater Shaare Torah and Community Center

Million dollar synagogue Caption:"Million dollar synagogue: Artist's conception of what the new million dollar synagogue and coummunity center of Congregation Shaare Torah of Flatbush will look like when completed."
Greater Shaare Torah and Community Center  image

Greater Shaare Torah and Community Center

$1,000,000 project Caption: "$1,000,000 project: Rabbi Joseph Miller, spiritual leader of Congregation Shaare Torah, 2252 Bedford Ave., looks on as steam shovel takes first bite out of ground at Albemarle Road and E. 21st St., where $1,000,000 Greater Shaare Torah and Community Center will be erected."
Greater Shaare Torah and Community Center  image

Greater Shaare Torah and Community Center

Cornerstone ceremony Caption: "Cornerstone ceremony: Officiating at laying of cornerstone brought from Israel for new community center and synagogue at Albemarle Road and E. 21st St. of Congregation Shaare Torah of Flatbush are, left to right, Municipal Court Justice Charles H. Breitbart, co-chairman of the ceremony; Louis Lefcourt (with silver trowell), vice president of Shaare Torah; Rabbi Joseph Miller and Acting Mayor Joseph T. Sharkey."
2102 Albemarle Road image

2102 Albemarle Road

Brooklyn: 21st Street (East) - Albemarle Road (1) East 21st Street, at the S.W. corner of Albemarle Read. This house is said to have been on Flatbush Ave., and also on the S.E. corner of Regent Place and East 21st Street, from which place it was moved to its present location by ene Kebart. May 1923, Eugene L Armbruster Collection. (2) The same, from a different angle. (The building is known as the Kehart house). May 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collectien. (3) The same, from a different angle. October 1928. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.
2102 Albemarle Road image

2102 Albemarle Road

Brooklyn: 21st Street (East) - Albemarle Road (1) East 21st Street, at the S.W. corner of Albemarle Read. This house is said to have been on Flatbush Ave., and also on the S.E. corner of Regent Place and East 21st Street, from which place it was moved to its present location by ene Kebart. May 1923, Eugene L Armbruster Collection. (2) The same, from a different angle. (The building is known as the Kehart house). May 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collectien. (3) The same, from a different angle. October 1928. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.
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