List of the oldest synagogues in the United States

All of the oldest congregations in the new world were founded by Sephardi Jews and followed the Sephardic liturgy.

Until 1795, all documented congregations in the United States followed the Sephardic minhag.

This list includes only buildings originally built as synagogues that are still standing.

Some continue in use as Jewish houses of worship; others have been adaptively reused.

Fewer than 100 purpose-built synagogues constructed prior to 1900 remain standing.

Touro Synagogue , Newport, Rhode Island (founded c. 1658, built 1759–63)
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Synagogue , Charleston, South Carolina (founded 1749, built 1840–41)
Congregation Shearith Israel , New York, New York (founded 1654, built 1896–97)
Congregation Mickve Israel , Savannah, Georgia (founded 1733, built 1876–78)
Plum Street Temple , Cincinnati, Ohio (1865–66)
Adas Israel , Washington, D.C. (1876)
Temple Beth-El, Pensacola, Florida (1933)
Shaare Tefilah, New Orleans, Louisiana (1860–65)
Temple Israel, Boston (1884–85)
Temple Emanu-El, Helena, Montana (1890–91)
Building at 637 Garden Street, Hoboken, in Hudson County, built in 1883
B'nai Israel, Galveston, Texas (1870)
Gates of Heaven, Madison, Wisconsin (1863)