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{{Short description|Jewish synagogue in New York City}}
{{Infobox religious building
| building_name = Congregation Chasam Sopher
| image = Congregation Chasam Sopher.png
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| caption = Synagogue in 2024
| map_type = Lower Manhattan
| map_size = 250
| map_relief = 1
| map_caption = Location in [[Lower Manhattan]]
| location = 10 Clinton Street<br>[[Lower East Side]], [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]]
| country = United States
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| religious_affiliation = [[Orthodox Judaism]]
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| status = [[Synagogue]]
| functional_status = Active
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| leadership = Rabbi Azriel Siff
| website = {{url|chasamsopher.org}}
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| architecture_type = Synagogue
| architecture_style = [[Romanesque Revival architecture|Romanesque Revival]]
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| established = 1892 {{small|(as a congregation)}}
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| year_completed = 1853
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'''Congregation Chasam Sopher''' is an [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] [[Jewish]] [[synagogue]] located at 10 Clinton Street on the [[Lower East Side]] of [[Manhattan]], in [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], United States.

== History ==
The congregation was formed in 1892 by the merger of two congregations of immigrants from Poland. It occupies a historic [[Romanesque Revival architecture|Romanesque Revival]] synagogue building built in 1853 by [[Congregation Rodeph Sholom (Manhattan, New York)|Congregation Rodeph Sholom]]. The synagogue building is among the [[Oldest synagogues in the United States|oldest synagogue]]s still standing in the United States, the second-oldest synagogue building in New York, and the oldest still in use in the state.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Gordon, Mark W. |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_jewish_history/v084/84.1gordon.html |title=Rediscovering Jewish Infrastructure: Update on United States Nineteenth Century Synagogues|journal=American Jewish History |volume=84 |number=1 |year=1996 |pages=11–27 |edition=2019 revised |access-date= |issn= |doi= }}</ref>

Renovation of the upstairs, completed in 2006, included conservation of the [[Torah ark]], the installation of new [[stained-glass window]]s, and stripping the interior of paint to expose the original wood. The outside was also landscaped, creating a garden for the neighborhood.<ref>{{cite news |author=Austerlitz, Saul |url=http://www.boston.com/travel/getaways/us/newyork/articles/2007/10/28/synagogues_tell_story_of_lower_east_sides_past/ |title=Synagogues tell story of Lower East Side's past |work=[[The Boston Globe]] |date=October 28, 2007 |access-date= }}</ref>

{{As of|2011}}, the [[rabbi]] was Azriel Siff.<ref name=rabbi>{{cite web |url=http://chasamsopher.org/content/view/2/6/ |title=Leadership |work=Congregation Chasam Sofer|date=n.d. |access-date=May 14, 2011 }}{{self-published-inline|date=December 2023}}</ref>{{self-published-inline|date=December 2023}}

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{official website|http://chasamsopher.org/}}

{{Synagogues in the United States}}
{{Lower East Side}}

[[Category:Synagogues completed in 1853]]
[[Category:Lower East Side]]
[[Category:Synagogues in Manhattan]]
[[Category:Orthodox synagogues in New York City]]
[[Category:Jewish organizations established in 1892]]
[[Category:Polish-Jewish culture in New York City]]
[[Category:1892 establishments in New York City]]
[[Category:Romanesque Revival synagogues]]
[[Category:Romanesque Revival architecture in New York City]]
[[Category:19th-century synagogues in the United States]]

Congregation Chasam Sopher - Revision history

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