- Museum of Jewish Montreal
- Chevra Shaas
- Chevra Shaas (4170 St-Urbain, Montreal, QC)
Chevra Shaas (4170 St-Urbain, Montreal, QC)
file1920-1964
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Where
- Held by
- Museum of Jewish Montreal via Museum of Jewish Montreal — map of Jewish Montreal
- Creator
- Sara Tauben
- Dates
- 1920-1964 (indexed as 1920–1964)
- Level
- file (source: Exhibit)
- Scope & content
- (Traduction à venir) Historic outline Established in 1899, the Chevra Shaas has occupied five locations within the Montreal areas of Jewish settlement. The congregation was first housed on Cadieux Street (now de Bullion) near today's Old Montreal. In 1900 the synagogue moved to 1110 St. Laurent and later to 108 de la Gauchetière O. where it remained until 1920. In 1920 the congregation moved to a more impressive building constructed at 4170 St. Urbain. The synagogue became referred to by some as the “Paperman shul”, since it was across the street from Paperman's funeral home, housed at 4081 St.Urbain from the 1920s to 50s. Around 1970, the congregation joined an amalgamation of synagogues at 5855 Lavoie, and became a part of what would be called the Chevra Shaas Adath Yeshurun Hadrath Kodesh Shevet Achim Chaverim Kol Israel d’Bet Avraham. In 2005 this congregation of former Eastern European immigrants merged with the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue (Shearith Israel), the oldest congregation in Montreal and in Canada. Physical description One of the larger synagogues of the area, the building at 4170 St. Urbain is a brick, symmetrical, Romanesque inspired structure, almost modern in its geometric simplicity. The name of the congregation is still visible on a concrete plaque above the door, and circular window above the entrance probably once held a stained glass magen david (Star of David). The circular tracing in the rear of the building indicates that there was also a similar window above the aron hakodesh (Holy Ark). The interior still contains the second level, which would have served as a women’s gallery, but there are no other apparent decorative or iconographic elements remaining from the synagogue. Today the building serves as the Associação Portuguesa Do Canadá. Written by Sara Tauben
- Places
- 4170 St-Urbain, Montreal, QC; 4170 rue St-Urbain, Montreal, QC
- Location
- 4170 rue Saint-Urbain · address · confidence 90% · address:exact · found as “4170 St-Urbain”
- 1110 boulevard Saint-Laurent · address · confidence 90% · address:exact · found as “1110 St. Laurent”
- 108 rue De La Gauchetière Ouest · address · confidence 90% · address:exact · found as “108 de la Gauchetière O.”
- 4081 rue Saint-Urbain · address · confidence 90% · address:exact · found as “4081 St.Urbain”
- avenue Cadieux · street · confidence 50% · street · found as “Cadieux Street”
- Montréal, QC · city · confidence 75% · city:geonames · found as “Montreal (QC)”
- Subjects
- Religious
- Language
- English
- Harvested
- 2026-10-17T06:33:27Z · source datestamp n/a · mjm