A Two-fer Historic Synagogue Tour: Lloyd Street and B’Nai Israel in East Baltimroe
Built in 1845 by the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, the Lloyd Street Synagogue was designed by noted Baltimore architect Robert Cary Long, Jr. and is the third oldest synagogue in the country. It is also a story of ever-fluid immigration in Baltimore as the building changed from Jewish to Catholic, back to Jewish, and eventually to public space as a museum. The Baltimore Hebrew Congregation owned the synagogue until 1889, when it transitioned into St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church, one of the first Lithuanian "ethnic" parishes in the United States.