(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
Sinai Congregation, for more than five decades one of the leading Reform congregations in Chicago, will build a $2,000,000 temple at Fifty-sixth Street and the South Outer Drive.
The decision to take this step was made Wednesday night at a meeting at the Standard Club at which were present some of the outstanding leaders of Jewry in Chicago. M. E. Greenebaum, president of the congregation, presided at the meeting. Dr. Louis L. Mann, rabbi of the congregation, proposed the new site for the temple.
The meeting which was the sixty sixth annual gathering of the congregation, decided upon three steps in the direction of building the new temple.
At the instance of Julius Rosenwald, vice-president of the congregation, it voted to sell the present temple and the Emil G. Hirsch Social Center at Forty-sixth Street and South Park Way. This structure was erected fifteen years ago.
It approved the purchase of the new site at Fifty-sixth Street and Leif Ericeson drive for an estimated $700,000. It also approved the erection of a new temple at the estimated cost of $1,250,000.
The present building, housing the temple and social center, was built at a cost of $650,000. It is understood that an offer of $450,000 has been made for the structure.
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