Category:Gates of Heaven Synagogue (Madison, Wisconsin)

Gates of Heaven Synagogue 

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Instance of	synagogue
Made from material	sandstone (façade)
Location	Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin
Architectural style	Rundbogenstil
Architect	August Kutzbock
Heritage designation	National Register of Historic Places listed place (A, Old Synagogue, NRHP building, 1970–) listed in the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places (Old Synagogue, 1989–) Madison Landmark (1974–)
Inception	1863
43° 04′ 47.8″ N, 89° 23′ 05.5″ W
Authority file  Q5527121 NRHP reference number: 70000030 OpenStreetMap way ID: 178864527 Reasonator Scholia Wikidocumentaries PetScan statistics WikiMap Locator tool KML file WikiShootMe OpenStreetMap Search depicted

This is a category about a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 70000030.

The Gates of Heaven Synagogue (1863), the eighth-oldest synagogue building in the United States, was designed for Madison's Jewish congregation by local architect August Kutzbock in Rundbogenstil, a nineteenth-century German form of Romanesque Revival. (See the Property Record online.) Kutzbock, a recent German immigrant, also used this distinctive style for the Pierce and Van Slyke Houses in the adjacent Mansion Hill district. The synagogue was later repurposed to serve as the Unitarian Society Meeting House, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the sanctuary of other denominations, and a funeral home. In 1971 it was saved from demolition through the efforts of local citizens and moved from its original location at 214 West Washington Avenue to 300 East Gorham Street, within James Madison Park. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. The stone benches in front of the building were added by the Madison Parks Department in 2009.