Park East Synagogue
- Architect
- Schneider & Herter
- Year
- 1890
- Style
- Moorish / Mudéjar
- City
- Manhattan, NY
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Park East Synagogue, originally Congregation Zichron Ephraim, was built in 1889-1890 at 163 East 67th Street to designs by Schneider & Herter. It is one of fewer than one hundred surviving nineteenth-century American synagogues and was designated a New York City Landmark in 1980.
the building
Asymmetrical twin towers. The Moorish Revival facade features a prominent rose window and twin towers of unequal height, with the eastern tower taller than the western one, unlike most synagogues of the period, which paired towers of matching height. Each tower originally carried a bulbous dome, since removed.
the style
The synagogue is built in the Moorish Revival style, distinguished by its rose window and mismatched twin towers, an unusual departure from the symmetrical twin-tower convention typical of synagogues built in this period.
More on Moorish / Mudéjarthe architect
Schneider and Herter, the architects, also designed numerous tenements in Manhattan's Lower East Side and Hell's Kitchen neighborhoods.
significance
Designated a New York City Landmark in 1980 (LP-01056) and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, it is one of fewer than one hundred surviving nineteenth-century American synagogue buildings.
nearby
- Church of Saint Vincent Ferrer Complex
- Percy Rivington Pyne House
- Manhattan House
- Park Avenue Armory
- Central Presbyterian Church
- Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House