California Landmark 462: Site of First Jewish Religious Services in San Francisco

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California Landmark 462
Site of First Jewish Religious Services in San Francisco
735 Montgomery Street
1849

25 August 2007
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First Jewish Religious Services

In a second floor room in a store which stood on this location, forty pioneers of Jewish faith gathered on Yom Kippur (5610) September 26, 1849, and participated in the first Jewish religious services in San Francisco.

State Registered Landmark No. 462

Tablet placed by California Centennials Commission with the cooperation of the Society of California Pioneers
Dedicated September 6, 1950

25 August 2007
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The site is located in the Jackson Square Historic District. The plaque is mounted on the wall of a building adjacent to San Francisco Landmark 52, A. P. Giannini's Fugazi Bank Building later known as the original Transamerica Building.

Today these buildings house the Church of Scientology of San Francisco.

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