Congregation Shearith Israel (Baltimore, Maryland) (original) (raw)

for the other United States congregations with the same name, see Shearith Israel (disambiguation); for the historic synagogue in New York, see Shearith Israel. Congregation Shearith Israel (Hebrew: קהילת שארית ישראל דבאלטימאר; nicknamed The Glen Avenue Shul) is a historic synagogue and congregation in Northwest Baltimore, Maryland. Shearith Israel is noteworthy as being the oldest Baltimore congregation to remain Orthodox throughout its history.