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Ahavas Achim Synagogue
Norma, Salem County

The congregation was organized in 1826, which would have been extremely early for this part of the state. The synagogue was built in 1888 in what is now a small residential neighborhood or quite a small town. There is nothing about the building to suggest it is a house of worship.
      There are only seven synagogues in the state remaining from the nineteenth century (at the turn of the century Newark alone had more than 50) and four of them are in south Jersey.

See Ellen Eisenberg, Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882-1920. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1995.

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