Designated April 24, 2001
The brick, neo-Romanesque Revival style Magen David Synagogue in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn was designed by architect Maurice Courland and was constructed in 1920-21 for New York’s flourishing Syrian-Jewish community. For more than twenty years, this handsome building, with its varied brick patterns, its colorful and carefully-sited round-arched windows, its Middle-Eastern motifs, and its unusual roof arrangement, was the centerpiece of life for this Orthodox Jewish community.
STATUS Designated Individual Landmarks
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Bensonhurst
Bensonhurst derives its name from Egbert Benson (1789–1866), whose lands were sold by his children and grandchildren to James D. Lynch, a New York real estate developer. Bensonhurst has a large Italian-American population and a large population of residents born in China and is now...
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