No. 2262 Temple Salem of Seventh Day Adventists March 2003
The name of the congregation means Society of Israel using Sephardic prayer ritual.
Sometimes called the Russian Shul, this congregation was founded in 1915 as an offshoot of Hadrath Israel, the congregation at 235 Woodrow Avenue. The first meeting house for Agudath Anshe Sfard was was located in a rented storefront at 1107Blue Hill Avenue. In 1918, they moved to 31 Johnsoton Road. In 1920, the moved to 170 Woodrow Avenue, the home of congregation Beth Aknosis Paoli Anshe Sephardic. The cornerstone ceremenony for the new building 15 220 Woodrow Avenue took place on October 30, 1921. Construction was completed in 1924
No. 695 Photograph of the interior of Agudas Israel Synagogue. Published in The Death of an American Jewish Community: a Tragedy of Good Intentions / Hillel Levine and Lawrence Harmon. New York: The Free Press, 1992.
Located at 220 Woodrow Avenue at the corner of Lucerne Street, this temple was also called the Woodrow Avenue Shul and sometimes the Russian Shul as opposed to the Lithuanian Shul, a smaller building across the street. In 2003 the building was being used by The Temple Salem of Seventh Day Adventists.
Source:
Dorchester Old and New, 1630-1930. (Dorchester: Chapple Publishing Company for the Dorchester, Massachusetts, Tercentary Committee, 1930)
Hillel Levine and Lawrence Harmon. The Death of an American Jewish Community: a Tragedy