Temple Beth Israel

Phoenix, United States

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Heritage registerNational Register of Historic Places↗

Temple Beth Israel in Phoenix is a Mission Revival synagogue designed by the architectural firm Lescher & Mahoney. As the first permanent Jewish congregation established in the vicinity of Phoenix, it represents an important chapter in the city's religious and cultural history. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the building exemplifies the Mission Revival style, an architectural idiom that blends Spanish colonial aesthetics with early twentieth-century American sensibilities—a choice that, while unconventional for synagogue design, reflects the broader architectural vocabulary of the region and era in which it was built.