Former Temple Gemiluth Chessed

About

Temple Gemiluth Chessed was built in Port Gibson in 1891–1892 for the town's Jewish congregation and dedicated in 1892. The distinctive Moorish Revival building became an important landmark of Jewish life in Mississippi. As the local Jewish population declined, regular congregational activity ended and the congregation formally dissolved in 1986. The building was then preserved by private owners and at one point was used by a Messianic congregation. The sources reviewed for this QA do not establish a clearly documented current regular use, so JWR records the present use as uncertain rather than guessing. Historic 1892 Moorish Revival synagogue building in Port Gibson, Mississippi; the Jewish congregation dissolved in 1986. In Jewish World Records, Former Temple Gemiluth Chessed is connected to the record “Oldest Building in Mississippi Originally Built as a Synagogue,” based on the stored achievement of Built in 1892.

Public links

• synagoguesofthesouth.charleston.edu