Announcement of a $500,000 building fund campaign to complete the new structure of the Free Synagogue was made here last night by Frederick L. Guggenheimer, president of the congregation. Construction was interrupted in 1941 by the advent of Pearl Harbor with only the foundation completed. Almost half of the total cost of one million dollars has already been subscribed.
For thirty years, starting in 1910, the Free Synagogue held weekly services at Carnegie Hall. In 1940 it moved to its present quarters pending the construction of its new home.
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