[6] Brith Sholom ("Covenant of Peace"), Louisville's third oldest synagogue, was organized in 1880.

[7] It was established in the Conservative tradition[4]: 150  for those wishing to pray in German, rather than the English used in Adath Israel.

[8] This was motivated by the desire of both groups to improve their physical facilities and to relocate to the eastern part of Jefferson County.

The building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 as a result of the strength and prestige of the architects.

[11]: 191 [9]: 155 Brith Sholom first building was at First and Walnut Streets,[13] occupied from 1881 and completed in the Gothic Revival style,[9]: 155, 92  which it sold to Congregation Anshei Sfard in 1903.

[9]: 155 The congregation's third building was in the Bonnycastle Mansion at Cowling and Maryland Avenues in 1949,[8][13] completed in the Georgian Revival style by architects, Walter C. Wagner and Joseph Potts.

In 1981, the congregation nominated the cemetery for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, that was approved on June 22, 1982.