About Our Congregation

The Shaare Shalom congregation was officially formed in April 1998. The founders were Joseph Fallack and Joseph Torgueman. However our original foundations date back to 1997, when we had a minyan of twenty-one men praying in various private homes. nine new men joined the minyan within a month. This encouraged us to look for property to build a shul. We found a corner house on East 21st Street and Avenue S. The house was decrepit and dilapidated. Still, we sought out the owner and purchased the property without even examining the inside. Our main attraction was that it covered a 60 x 100 foot lot…

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