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URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL CENTER
Greater Newark Conservancy is transforming an historic 1884 former synagogue/church
on Prince Street, Newark and an adjacent 1.5-acre property into an Urban Environmental
and Ecological Center. This facility will be the state's first urban environmental education
resource center. The $11 million project will renovate the 15,800-square-foot building into
administrative offices, a large lecture hall/community meeting room, environmental
classrooms/laboratory, and a computer library.
The three-story brick former synagogue is an example of Moorish Revival architecture and is listed
on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places. Oheb Shalom Congregation occupied the synagogue from
1884 until 1911, at which time it was sold to Congregation Adas Israel and Mishnayes. In 1939
Metropolitan Baptist Church bought the building and occupied it until 1993. Purchased by the City
of Newark, the historic synagogue narrowly escaped demolition and was bought by Greater Newark
Conservancy in 1995 to house the new environmental Center. The Conservancy has restored the exterior
of the building and now has raised over $7 million toward its $11 million Capital
Campaign to establish the new Center.
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