The City of Montreal will preserve the two pillars at the entrance of the old Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue on Stanley Street here and will make use of them as historic relics for some future park development, the city’s Parks Board announced.
The Stanley Street home of the old congregation, also known as Shearith Israel was the third in the history of the oldest Jewish institution in Canada. The site of the first, opposite the Court House in Old Montreal, is marked by a plaque put up to mark the historic spot by the Historical and Numismatic Society of Montreal. At present, the congregation conducts worship in the new suburb of Snowdon.
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