The plan to build a Moorish style synagogue by 1891 did not materialize, but the congregation did receive a Torah scroll, which David Kaufman purchased in New York.

[4] Prior to constructing a synagogue, the congregation met at Wickstrom Hall at 8th Avenue and Columbia Street on First Hill.

Sigismund Aronson, secretary-treasurer of the prominent Seattle wholesaler Schwabacher Brothers, was congregation president.

[6] The second synagogue, at the same location on First Hill, was designed by Herman Steinman, and constructed in the Gothic Revival style, similar to Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco.

The building seated 750[4] and opened on September 18, 1892, four days after Reform Temple Emanu-El in Spokane, making the latter the first synagogue in Washington.