725 Hancock Ave., Bridgeport, Connecticut. County/parish: Fairfield.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 11, 1995. NRIS 95000574.
Part of Historic Synagogues of Connecticut MPS (NRIS 64500078).
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Congregation Ahavath Achim (transliterated from Hebrew as "Brotherly Love") is a Modern Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Fairfield, Connecticut, in the United States.
Established as a congregation in 1904, the congregation's first synagogue building, located at 725 Hancock Avenue in Bridgeport, was completed in 1926, vacated in the 1960s, and was subsequently used a Christian church.
This former synagogue was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 11, 1995, as "West End Congregation--Achavath [sic] Achim Synagogue", as part of a multiple property listing of fifteen historic synagogues in Connecticut.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132353090