Loading
  • 21 Aug, 2019

  • By, Wikipedia

Temple Beth El (Alpena, Michigan)

Temple Beth-El is a non-denomational Jewish synagogue, located at 125 White Street, in Alpena, Michigan, in the United States. It is the only synagogue in northeastern Lower Michigan. The congregation is closely associated with the Hebrew Benevolent Society Cemetery.

While having no resident rabbi, the temple occasionally brings in visiting rabbis or cantors. It also has periodic outreach programs, which include dialogue with other religious groups in Alpena, Michigan.

The temple is located at 125 White Street in a vernacular style building built in 1889, making it one of America's relatively few surviving 19th century synagogues. The building was moved to the present site in 1891.

The congregation's archives are in the library of Wayne State University.