Etz Chaim Synagogue | |
Image Upright: | 1.4 |
Map Type: | Maine |
Map Size: | 250 |
Map Relief: | 1 |
Coordinates: | 43.6621°N -70.2525°W |
Religious Affiliation: | Judaism |
Location: | 267 Congress Street, Portland, Maine 04101 |
Country: | United States |
Leadership: | Rabbi Gary S. Berenson |
General Contractor: | Louis Serota |
Year Completed: | 1921 |
Etz Chaim Synagogue (transliterated from Hebrew as "Tree of Life") is a unaffiliated Jewish congregation, synagogue, and Jewish history museum, located at 267 Congress Street, at the head of India Street, in Portland, Maine, United States. The congregation is the only immigrant-era European-style synagogue remaining in Maine.[1] It was founded in 1917 as an English-language Orthodox Sefardi congregation, rather than in the Yiddish-language tradition; and the synagogue was completed in 1921.[2] In, the dwindling Orthodox congregation became egalitarian and unaffiliated with any movement.
Gary S. Berenson is the congregation's rabbi.[3]
Located in the India Street Historic District, the building has also housed the Maine Jewish Museum since 2010.[4]