Union Temple

Brooklyn, United States

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Union Temple of Brooklyn was a Reform Jewish synagogue located at 17 Eastern Parkway in the Prospect Heights neighborhood, across from the Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum. Designed by architect Arnold Brunner and completed in 1929 in the Neoclassical style, the eleven-story building was originally constructed as a community house for a planned temple that was never built due to the Great Depression. The congregation itself resulted from the merger of two nineteenth-century congregations, K. K. Beth Elohim and Temple Israel. After a theatre within the building was remodeled into a sanctuary in 1942, the structure served as the primary worship space for the community, though High Holy Days were historically held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015, and the congregation merged with Congregation Beth Elohim in 2021.