Congregation Beth Elohim
Congregation Beth Elohim, also known as the Garfield Temple and the Eighth Avenue Temple, is a Reform Jewish congregation and historic synagogue located at 274 Garfield Place and Eighth Avenue, in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, New York, United States.Photo: David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Synagogue
- Description: Reform Jewish congregation located at 274 Garfield Place and Eighth Avenue, in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn
- Also known as: “Congregation Beth Elohim Main Sanctuary”, “Eighth Avenue Temple”, and “Garfield Temple”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Prospect Park and Park Slope Historic District.
Prospect Park
Photo: McKay Savage, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Prospect Park is in Brooklyn. It includes its namesake park, plus the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, and Prospect Park South.
Park Slope Historic District
Historic site
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC BY 4.0.
Park Slope Historic District is a national historic district in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, New York. It consists of 1,802 contributing buildings built between 1862 and about 1920.
Brooklyn Museum
Museum
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The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects. Brooklyn Museum is situated 2,900 feet east of Congregation Beth Elohim.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Park Slope and Prospect Heights.
Park Slope
Neighborhood
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Park Slope is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, within an area known as South Brooklyn. Park Slope is roughly bounded by Prospect Park and Prospect Park West to the east, Fourth Avenue to the west, Flatbush Avenue to the north, and Prospect Expressway to the south.
Prospect Heights
Neighborhood
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Prospect Heights is a neighborhood in the northwest of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The traditional boundaries are Flatbush Avenue to the west, Atlantic Avenue to the north, Eastern Parkway – beginning at Grand Army Plaza – to the south, and Washington Avenue to the east.
Gowanus
Neighborhood
Photo: Semiautonomous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gowanus is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community District 6.
Congregation Beth Elohim
- Categories: building and religion
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.67122° or 40° 40′ 16″ northLongitude
-73.97424° or 73° 58′ 27″ westElevation
118 feet (36 metres)Height
75 feet (23 metres)Open location code
87G8M2CG+F8OpenStreetMap ID
way 250439037OpenStreetMap feature
building=synagogueGeoNames ID
6337568Wikidata ID
Q5160604
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Yiddish—“Congregation Beth Elohim” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “以罗欣之殿会堂”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كنيس مجمع بيت الله”
- Finnish: “Congregation Beth Elohim”
- Finnish: “Eighth Avenue Temple”
- Finnish: “Garfield Temple”
- German: “Beth-Elohim-Gemeinde”
- Hebrew: “קהילת בית אלוהים”
- Yiddish: “קהילה בית אלהים”
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