Nueva Congregación Israelita, Montevideo

Sinagoga de la Nueva Congregación Israelita
Basic information
Location Uruguay Montevideo, Uruguay
Affiliation Judaism
Ecclesiastical or organizational status Active

The Synagogue of the New Jewish Comgregation (Spanish: Sinagoga de la Nueva Congregación Israelita, often known by its acronym NCI) is a synagogue in Montevideo, Uruguay.[1]

Overview

The New Jewish Congregation was founded in the 1936 mostly by German and Austrian Jews who fled Nazism. It established two synagogues, the big one on Wilson Ferreira Aldunate Street is Conservative, the smaller one was Orthodox.[2]

See also

References

  1. "Synagogues in Uruguay". Maven. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  2. "Short history of NCI". Retrieved 31 March 2013. (Spanish)


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