and Union streets, was erected. The building is a
neat brick structure, with a seating capacity for
about one hundred and fifty persons. Attached to
the synagogue, and situated in the basement of the
building, is a school room, where the children of the
congregation are taught, by the minister or reader,
who contracts with the church for this duty when
he enters upon his pastoral charge. The school
dates its organization from the time of the establish-
ment of the congregation.
On the 2d day of March, 1867, the synagogue on
Centre street was dedicated with religious obser-
vances, on which occasion Rev. B. Szold, and H.
Hockheimer, of Baltimore, and Rev. Baum, of
Cumberland, officiated.
In 1869, Rev. A. Openheimer succeeded Mr. Baum
as reader, and held the position until the 24th day of
April, 1871, when he died, suddenly, of heart disease,
and was buried in the Hebrew cemetery, in this city.
Rev. Openheimer was succeeded in 1871, by Rev.
A. Bonheim, who remained until 1873, and was
followed by Rev. G. Levi, who officiated until 1875,
when Rev. M. Wurzel was called to the charge.
Mr. Wurzel continued here two years, and was
succeeded in 1877 by Rev. L. Eiseman, the present
incumbent. In the year 1853 the congregation pur-
chased a piece of ground on the Baltimore pike, east
of, and contiguous to, the city, for burial purposes.
They have since greatly enlarged and improved the
same.
The congregation numbers at present twenty mem-
bers, and the number of pew holders is about eighty.
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