515 N. Ewing St., Helena, Montana. County/parish: Lewis and Clark.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 11, 2002. NRIS 02000724.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Temple Emanu-El is a historic former Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Helena, Montana, in the United States. Completed in 1891, the building was the first synagogue to be constructed between St. Paul, Minnesota, and Portland, Oregon.
The once-thriving Jewish community of Helena declined to the point that by the 1930s they could no longer maintain the building, and it was sold to the State of Montana, which added a second floor, converted it to office space and removed most religious symbolism from the building, though kept the unique stained glass windows.
Eventually, the building fell into disuse by the state other than storage space, and so it was purchased by the Catholic Diocese of Helena, then sold back to the Montana Jewish project which has owned it since 2022 for use as a center for Montana's Jewish community.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71976225