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Congregation Bnai Jacob Anshe Brzezan (Stanton Street Shul)

The Stanton Street Shul (Congregation Bnai Jacob Anshe Brzezan), one of the last remaining tenement synagogues in New York City., was built in 1913, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The town of Brzezan is in southeast Galicia (now the Ukraine). The Shul is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and contains one of the few remaining examples of Mazalot in the Lower East Side.

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