- St. Peter and Paul’s Orthodox Church plans to build a new church.
- The current location, a former synagogue, is too small for their rapidly growing congregation.
- A temporary site in Kearns will be used while constructing a larger facility.
SALT LAKE CITY — St. Peter and Paul’s Orthodox Church is looking to build their own worship space after outgrowing the former synagogue of Congregation Montefiore where they currently reside.
Congregation Montefiore, an Orthodox Jewish congregation that eventually transitioned to a Conservative Jewish congregation, built the synagogue in 1903 for approximately $9,000 after splitting from Congregation B’nai Israel in 1895.
The congregation met in members’ homes until it raised enough funds to build a new synagogue, one of only four synagogues built in Utah during the 19th and 20th centuries. The land was donated to the congregation by Morris Levy.
The original architect, Carl Neuhausen, mixed together different architectural styles when building the synagogue, adding Byzantine columns at the entry, Moorish arches in the towers underneath onion-shaped domes, and round-arched windows throughout the building…