Old Agudath Achim Synagogue

Orthodox Jews were praying informally in Shreveport by 1884, many of them immigrants from Eastern Europe; Sam Willer arrived from Russia in 1888. Two Orthodox groups, Beth El and Beth Joseph, merged in 1902 to form Agudath Achim with 58 members. The congregation bought the Line Avenue corner in 1926 but did not build until 1938. It refurbished its building in 1974, judged the upkeep too costly, and finished a new synagogue on Village Green Drive in 1981, a year after the plaque's date.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 0.9 mi
  The Art Deco hall of 1929 where the Louisiana Hayride went out over KWKH from 1948 to 1960 and where Elvis Presley first played Shreveport on October 16, 1954.
• Spring Street Museum — 1.2 mi
  An 1866 bank building downtown that also held a Freedman's Savings and Trust branch in 1870, now a free LSUS-run museum with a Victorian parlor and the original vault.
• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 1.6 mi
  An 1887 brick pumping station on McNeill Street where Worthington steam pumps ran until 1980, now a free museum and a National Historic Landmark.
• Louisiana State Exhibit Museum — 2.5 mi
  A circular Art Deco museum of 1939 on the Shreveport fairgrounds, with a 1,000-year-old Caddo log boat, rotunda murals and dioramas of early Caddo Parish.

More markers nearby

• Masonic Temple — 0.3 mi
• Josh Logan Home — 0.6 mi
• Calanthean Temple — 0.8 mi
• Jefferson Hotel — 0.8 mi