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English: Temple Beth Tzedek, 1641 North Forest Road, Amherst, New York, November 2022. The original part of the building, seen at left here, was built in 1989 as home to Congregation B'nai Shalom, an Orthodox Jewish synagogue founded in 1950 as the merger of two older congregations, namely Ahavas Achim, formerly on Fillmore Avenue and the now-demolished Anshe Lubavitz on Hickory Street. Originally named Ahavas Achim-Lubavitz, it spent its existence bouncing around a number of different locations generally following the migration pattern of the late-20th-century Buffalo-area Jewish community as a whole: the two original shuls were on the East Side, but upon their merger, they settled in a newly built synagogue on Tacoma Avenue in the North Park section of the city. The name change to B'nai Shalom happened about 1987, two years before their move to the suburban location seen here where they would remain for the rest of their existence. Diminishing membership forced a 2017 merger with the much larger Temple Beth Tzedek, whose congregation moved from their former home on Eggert Road in Tonawanda to the former B'nai Shalom property on North Forest Road; the rear annex seen at right in this photo was constructed at that time. Aside from the aforementioned Ahavas Achim and Anshe Lubavitz congregations, Beth Tzedek is heir to the legacies of a number of other historic Jewish congregations on the Niagara Frontier: it was first formed in 2008 from a merger of Temples Beth El and Shaarey Zedek, the latter itself a merger of three preexisting congregations, and already in 2011 had welcomed congregants of Niagara Falls' Temple Beth Israel into the fold.