Prayer Service for the Reopening of the "She'erith Israel" Congregation Synagogue in Melbourne, Australia – ...

Prayer Service for the Reopening of the "She'erith Israel" Congregation Synagogue in Melbourne, Australia – Melbourne, 1877
Melbourne Hebrew Congregation. Form of Service for the Consecration of the K"K She'erith Israel Synagogue Bourke Street West. Melbourne: Walker, May & Co., [1877]. English.
Prayer Service booklet for the reopening of the She'erith Israel Congregation Synagogue in Melbourne, Australia.
The Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, the oldest Jewish community in Melbourne, was founded in 1841. In 1847, the congregation's first synagogue was founded on Bourke Street, containing 100 seats. In the 1850s, 300 Jewish families arrived in Melbourne from London and Prussia, and the need arose to expand the synagogue. It was newly inaugurated in 1877, with over 600 seats.
[1] leaf (printed front cover), 16 pp, [1] leaf (blank back cover), 21 cm. Good condition. A number of light stains to cover. The booklet, with the original paper cover, is bound in a new nylon cover.
Not in NLI.