More than one-third of a fund of $50,000 to restore historic Touro Synagogue, now a national historic shrine under the care of the National Park Service has been raised, it was reported this week-end at the eighth annual meeting of the Society of Friends of the synagogue here.
The building, dedicated in 1763, will be repaired after a six-month research program and preparation of architectural plans which will provide for enlargement of the site reinforcement of the foundations and repair of interior and exterior. More than 10,000 persons visited the synagogue last year. It is famous in American history as the oldest synagogue building in America and because George Washington wrote to its congregation in 1790 a letter which stated, in part, that this country “gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.”
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