Adult Education - Temple Sholom of Chicago (2024)

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Temple Sholom, founded in 1867, is one of Chicago's oldest synagogues and most pioneering. Temple Sholom is a place of great historical significance with a dynamic, modern approach to Judaism. Our large and embracing congregation is the perfect place to find your place within the Reform Jewish experience.

Quinn Chapel AME Church, also known as Quinn Chapel of the A.M.E. Church, houses Chicago's first African-American congregation, formed by seven individuals as a nondenominational prayer group that met in the house of a member in 1844.

History – The Chicago Temple. First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple is a congregation with a glorious past, a vibrant present and a promising future. It is the oldest church in Chicago! It was founded by Methodist circuit riders in 1831, six years before the City of Chicago was incorporated.

Glencoe, Highland Park, Lincolnwood, and Skokie had estimates of being almost 50% Jewish. Buffalo Grove and Deerfield had estimates of being over 25% Jewish. Evanston, Glenview, Morton Grove, Niles, Northbrook, Wilmette, and Winnetka had estimates of being 10-25% Jewish.

The 2020 estimate of the Chicago Jewish population is 319,600 Jewish adults and children who live in 175,800 Jewish households. An additional 100,700 non-Jewish individuals live in these households, for a total of 420,300 people in Jewish households.

Beth Sholom (House of Peace) Synagogue was commissioned in 1953 when Wright was 85 years old. It was not unveiled until September of 1959, five months after Wright's death.

The First Presbyterian Church (Chicago) is the first Presbyterian Church in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is arguably the first church organized in Chicago. It is the oldest continuously operating institution in Chicago, predating by two months the founding of Chicago as a town.

It is also the oldest surviving medieval synagogue of twin-nave design. Completed in 1270, it was one of Prague's first Gothic buildings.

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