In 2008, the clergy and members of St. Bart's left the Episcopal Church during the Anglican realignment and founded the current congregation, which now occupies the former site of Temple Beth-El in Tonawanda.
[7] St. Bart's current building was dedicated in 1961 as a school for Temple Beth-El, which dated back to 1847 as the first Jewish congregation in the Buffalo area.
Buoyed by a bequest from philanthropist Judah Touro, Congregation Beth-El built a synagogue on Elm Street in 1873 and moved to a West Side site on Richmond Avenue in 1911.
Temple Beth-El dedicated a school, designed in the New Formalist style by Louis Greenstein, on Eggert Road in Tonawanda.
[8] St. Bart's remains a large church in the evangelical Anglican tradition with Bible studies, home groups, and prayer meetings.