Magen David Synagogue
The Jewish communities were successful in opening up multiple synagogues. One example of a synagogue is the Magen David Synagogue, the first Sephardic congregation in Benshonhurst, located on 67th Street. This synagogue, built in 1921, attracted 95 percent of the Sephardic community on a weekly basis. The entire Sephardic community in Bensonhurst lived between 62nd and 78th streets to be able to walk to the synagogue on the Sabbath. Soon, the community had grown enough to support a second synagogue, Ahi Ezer Synagogue on 71st Street, the first synagogue in Bensonhurst to have a social hall. There were also many Ashkenaz synagogues built by the European Jewish communities. These synagogues include a congregation in the Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst, which opened in 1926, on Bay Parkway at 79th Street, and another in Ohel Moshe. By the 1980s, there were around 20 Orthodox Ashkenaz congregations in Bensonhurst alone.
