142 Newent Rd. (CT 138), Lisbon, Connecticut. County/parish: New London.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 21, 1995. NRIS 95000861.
Part of Historic Synagogues of Connecticut MPS (NRIS 64500078).
1 contributing building.
Anshei Israel Synagogue is a historic former Orthodox Jewish synagogue building located at 142 Newent Road (CT 138) in Lisbon, Connecticut. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 as part of a multiple property listing of 15 historic synagogues in Connecticut.
The Orthodox congregation was founded with 15 families who constructed the building in 1936. It was built by George Allen & Sons. The interior is a single room that is lined with five benches before the sacred ark. The congregation's membership dwindled throughout the 1940s and 1950s, finally limiting the services to holidays before finally closing in the early 1980s. The Town of Lisbon took ownership of the property in the 1980s, and it is currently maintained by the Lisbon Historical Society.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132353513