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 The Fourth Street Synagogue was the first synagogue in Kentucky, and the first home of The Temple in Louisville. Built in 1848, and pictured here in a birds-eye view of the city circa 1855, this wooden structure housed a congregation of some 200 families. America's first rabbi, Isaac Leeser preached from this pulpit, as did America's first great reformer, Isaac Mayer Wise. This first home of our congregation was destroyed in the "Louisville Theater Fire" of 1866 which began in the smaller arched building just below. the large church slightly up and to the right is Walnut Street Baptist which was erected soon after the Fourth Street Temple, establishing cordial ties between the two congregations which still stand today. |
