On this tour, you will visit the spectacularly colorful Bialystoker Synagogue, and walk down historic East Broadway. See where immigrants went to shul, and how a new generation is carrying on these traditions.

Bialystoker is a magnificently renovated former Methodist church believed to be a stop on the Underground Railroad. It is a rare treasure, and one of the few synagogues surviving worldwide that has hand-painted mazoles - or signs of the zodiac – historically seen in Ashkenazic synagogues throughout the world, and is now the largest active congregation on the Lower East Side. Learn why there is a lobster painted on the ceiling.

Discuss Beth Hamedrash Hagadol – once home to the first and largest Russian Jewish Orthodox congregation in the United States, as well as the only Chief Rabbi of America.

Walk the streets of Historic East Broadway. Sites to be viewed and discussed include: The Educational Alliance, Henry Street Settlement, The Forward Building, Seward Park, Straus Square and more.

Your guide has spent his entire life on the Lower East Side and will give you an insiders perspective.

This tour lasts approximately 3 hours, with a fair amount of walking.

In order to enable you to hear the guide, we will be using an app for smart phones. Bring earphones for your cell.

If you are not feeling well, DO NOT ATTEND. If you have been exposed to anyone with symptoms of the virus DO NOT ATTEND. Call our office and arrangements will be made to either have your money refunded, or you will be issued a credit with no expiration date.

The price of this tour is $28 for Adults, $26 for Seniors, and $25 for students , and tickets are an additional $3 PP if purchased the day of the tour,-pending availability.

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