A Jewish congregation and a Protestant Episcopal mission parish made religious history this week-end when they decided to build a single house of worship to be used by both congregations. The church and the synagogue will later construct and use a joint community center.
The situation came about when the Holy Angel Episcopal Mission and the Dade Heights Jewish Community Center, which found that they could not afford individual sites and buildings, heard about each other. A proposal by Harold Samuels, of the Jewish center, that the two groups buy a site jointly and build separately was matched by the Rev. James W. Rice’s suggestion that they not only buy the site jointly but that they build one structure and use it jointly. Mr. Samuels and the Rev. Rice consider their solution “very practical” and a “new high in brotherhood.”
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