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Anshei Minsk (formally Beth Israel Anshei Minsk, informally the Minsk) is a synagogue in the Kensington Market neighbourhood Toronto, Canada. It was founded by poor Jewish immigrants from nowadays Belarus (mostly Minsk) in 1912. At that time it was part of the Russian Empire. The current Byzantine Revival building was completed in 1930. The congregation has had only three full-time rabbis: Meyer Levy (1916–1921), Meyer Zimmerman (1940–1954), and Shmuel Spero, who has served from 1988 to the present. It is the only Orthodox synagogue in downtown Toronto with a full-time rabbi, and the only one that holds daily services. ==Founding== Anshei Minsk (formally Beth Israel Anshei Minsk, informally the Minsk) was the first congregation formed in the Kensington Market neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1912, at a time when most of Toronto's Jewish population still lived in The Ward but were moving westward in increasing numbers to the Market and the surrounding area.〔("Anshei Minsk -Early History" ), ''Toronto's First Synagogues'', Ontario Jewish Archives. Accessed July 16, 2011.〕 The Minsk originated as a ''landsmanshaft'' synagogue with its immigrant congregation based on a country, district or city of origin, in this case most of the Mink's founders were poor Jews from Minsk (in Belarus), who had settled in Kensington Market at the turn of the century. At its founding, it was a ''shtibel'' or small storefront synagogue typical of poorer Jewish immigrant communities of the time.〔 The land on which the current synagogue was built is located at 10-12 St. Andrew Street, across the street from what is thought to be the location of the original storefront synagogue. The location was purchased by the congregation in 1913 for $9,000. The two houses originally on the property were used not only as a location for the congregation to worship, starting in about 1916, but also housed up to 14 tenants. By 1923, only the caretaker was domiciled there and by 1925 the property was used exclusively as a synagogue.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anshei Minsk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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