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Kehila Kedosha Janina,<br />
Manhattan<br />
<strong>The</strong> synagogue of Kehila Kedosha Janina<br />
(Sidney Daub, 1925-1927) sits mid-block on<br />
Broome Street in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.<br />
It humbly houses a fascinating congregation, a<br />
small, relatively unknown group of Greek<br />
Jews. Oral tradition holds that Jews first<br />
settled in Ioannina (Janina), Greece in the year<br />
70 following the destruction of the Second<br />
Temple. <strong>The</strong>y were on a slave ship bound from<br />
Jerusalem to Rome when a shipwreck landed them in Albania. <strong>The</strong> prisoners fled<br />
and settled in Ioannina, developing a set of rites and traditions called Romaniote<br />
that combined Greek and Hebrew customs. About 1,800 years later, Ioannian<br />
Jews left their town, seeking economic opportunity in Constantinople, Athens,<br />
Alexandria, Palestine, and <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>. <strong>The</strong> Lower East Side congregation of<br />
Kehila Kedosha Janina was founded in 1906, and the synagogue was built between<br />
1925 and 1927. Today, Kehila Kedosha Janina is the only remaining Romaniote<br />
Synagogue in the western hemisphere. In the early 1990s, Kehila Kedosha Janina<br />
decided to share its history and heritage. <strong>The</strong> congregation developed a museum<br />
with artifacts from the Romaniote heritage, including Romaniote costumes,<br />
Jewish texts in Greek, amulets, and Torah decorations.<br />
In order to maintain the synagogue center, the congregation has been working<br />
with the Lower East Side <strong>Conservancy</strong> and the Sacred Sites Program to obtain<br />
National Register listing and financial assistance. To date, Kehila Kedosha Janina<br />
has received pledges for $60,000 in matching grants for restoration, $10,000 from<br />
the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Landmarks</strong> <strong>Conservancy</strong>’s Sacred Sites Program and $50,000 from<br />
the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> State Environmental Protection Fund. <strong>The</strong>se funds will help the<br />
congregation repair the roof and facades. <strong>The</strong> congregation is currently working<br />
to fundraise in order to claim the grants.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Kehila Kedosha Janina museum is open from 11-4 on Sundays and by<br />
appointment. <strong>The</strong> synagogue holds services each Saturday at 9 am and on all<br />
holidays. For more information, call (212) 431-1619 and direct correspondence to<br />
Cooper Station, P.O. Box 72, <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>, <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> 10276.<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Landmarks</strong> <strong>Conservancy</strong><br />
<strong>Common</strong> <strong>Bond</strong><br />
141 Fifth Avenue, <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>, <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> 10010<br />
Address Service Requested<br />
Ken M. Lustbader<br />
Please Route to Property<br />
Committee, Clergy, Board of<br />
Trustees, and Maintenance Staff<br />
<strong>Common</strong> <strong>Bond</strong> 20 Volume 16, No. 2/Winter 2001 ⏐ www.nylandmarks.org<br />
For additional information about<br />
the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Landmarks</strong><br />
<strong>Conservancy</strong>’s Sacred Sites Program,<br />
or to subscribe to <strong>Common</strong> <strong>Bond</strong>,<br />
call us at (800) 880-NYLC (6952) or<br />
visit our website at nylandmarks.org.<br />
<strong>Common</strong> <strong>Bond</strong> is funded by grants<br />
from <strong>The</strong> Achelis Foundation, <strong>The</strong><br />
Barker Welfare Foundation, the<br />
James A. Macdonald Foundation,<br />
the Natural Heritage Trust, <strong>The</strong><br />
Norman and Rosita Winston<br />
Foundation, contributions from the<br />
Friends of Sacred Sites, and<br />
donations from readers.<br />
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