Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
- Year
- 1908
- Style
- Moorish / Mudéjar
- City
- Washington, DC
Adas Israel Congregation built and dedicated this synagogue on January 8, 1908, at Sixth and I Streets NW, then at the heart of Washington's main commercial district and its Jewish community, making it one of the oldest synagogue buildings in the city. In 1951 the congregation outgrew it and moved to a new building on Connecticut Avenue, selling the property to Turner Memorial A.M.E. Church, which used it for fifty years before relocating to Hyattsville, Maryland.
the building
Saved from a nightclub. When the building faced conversion into a nightclub, three local Jewish developers stepped in to save it and restored it to its original roots.
A sanctuary built to gather. The building's sanctuary seats 750 people across two levels, backed by a social hall for up to 250 and two multi-purpose rooms each holding up to 75, space now used for lectures, concerts, and art exhibitions as much as for religious services.
the style
The building's Moorish Revival design gives it the distinctive domed facade recognizable at the corner of Sixth and I Streets.
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