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Bagg Street Shul

Montréal, Italy

Bagg Street Shul

The Bagg Street Shul or Beth Shloime (formally Congregation Temple Solomon) is an Orthodox synagogue located at the intersection of Clark Street and Bagg Street in the Montreal Plateau neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In the early 1900s, fueled by heavy immigration, a large Jewish communit

y was established in Montreal's Plateau region, around Saint Laurent Boulevard, that supported at least a dozen synagogues at its peak. The Plateau and Mile End neighbourhood once had over 90 sites and buildings serving as synagogues, with Bagg Street Shul being the last still-functioning synagogue in the area. The congregation started to decline in the 1950s, as many Jews moved further west in Montreal to the growing suburban boroughs of Côte Saint-Luc, Hampstead, Saint-Laurent or to other parts of Canada. The synagogue remains in operation today with a small congregation for Shabbat morning services.

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