B'Nai Israel Temple was built in 1891 and designed by German architect Philip Meyer. Meyer was an architect for the Kaiser and the nephew of prominent Salt Lake department store owner Frederick Auerbach. (Auerbach's Department Store survived into the late 70's and I remember their adds as a child). The synagogue was built at a cost of 37,500.00 and is a smaller replica of the Great Synagogue in Berlin which was later destroyed by allied bombings in W.W.II. Meyer himself was an unfortunate victim of the nazis years later at the German concentration camp of Theresienstadt.

The temple is on the National Register and currently houses a local architecture firm.

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