While speaking with expatriated Philadelphians, we need your help to identify any synagogues between Girard & Race and East of 13th Street. Marshal Street was once had a thriving, Judeo-Christian merchanilte life, based upon German-Jews.

While we know of Center City and the Broad and Green synagogues, those in Northern Liberties seem had to find. We assume they were sold off and converted to other houses of worship. Your help in any threads of information would be appreciated.

The building that is now Emanuel Full Gospel Temple ( African American Baptist church, I believe) at 984 N. Marshall Street used to be Kneses Israel Anshe Sfard, the largest Eastern European shul that served the Jewish community of Marshall Street and vicinity. Before that, the building was a local hall of the Grand Army of the Republic, a Union soldiers' veterans organization. Kneses Israel was established in the 1890s probably, after the German Jews had moved on to Olney and other parts north, and closed in the early 1960s I think (don't quote me on that), when the heydey of the Marshall Street market and the Jewish population there began to wane. In the 1930s there were 30+ Eastern European shuls in Northern Liberties, but I don't know exactly where.

Earlier I wrote that "I think the congregation[Kneses Israel] is in Elkins Park now." Correction: it's Reform Congregation Kenseth Israel that's in Elkins Park, moved there from Broad & Columbia: http://www.nmajh.org/exhibitions/postcards/cards/46.htm

Sorry!