Millinery Center Synagogue

 synagogue, Art Deco (architecture), 1948_construction

3-story Orthodox Jewish synagogue completed in 1948. Designed by Hyman Isaac Feldman, it has a somewhat severe Modernist design. Faced in limestone, it boasts little exterior decoration—a centered magen david at the roofline, a frieze announcing the name of the synagogue in sleek mid-century lettering at the third floor, and a large rectangular stained glass window over the wide, wooden entrance doors.

The Millinery Center Synagogue was actually founded in 1935, worshiping in a second-floor Millinery District loft for a decade. The main floor of the temple was designed to seat 128 worshipers and space was provided for social activities as well. The Millinery Synagogue served the Garment District with its 60 hat firms and over 15,000 employees, many of them religiously observant Jews seeking a place to say kaddish (the mourner’s prayer).

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