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Gemiluth Chessed (Port Gibson, Mississippi)
''Gemiluth Chessed'' (Acts of Loving Kindness) is a Moorish Revival synagogue in Port Gibson, Mississippi. It is the oldest surviving synagogue in the state and the only building of this architectural style. It was built in 1892 by a community of Jewish immigrants from German states and Alsace-Lorraine. Due to declining population, the congregation closed in 1986.
==History==
The Port Gibson Jewish community was established in the 1840s by Ashkenazi immigrants from the German states and Alsace-Lorraine. Working first as peddlers, they founded the Port Gibson Jewish cemetery in 1870 and built the synagogue in 1892 on Church Street. It is the oldest surviving synagogue in the state and the only building of this architectural style.〔 There were about 50-60 Jewish families during the peak of population at the beginning of the twentieth century.〔 By then most of the men worked as merchants and cotton brokers.〔
With the decline of the Mississippi River towns in the later twentieth century, the Jewish community dwindled as the next generations moved to larger cities. The congregation closed in 1986.〔 They donated their Torah and artifacts to the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in Utica, Mississippi. A non-Jewish couple bought the synagogue to ensure its preservation, when it was threatened with demolition for other development.〔(Carol Levy Monahan, "Port Gibson, Mississippi" ), ''Judeo-Alsatians in the Deep South,'' exhibit at the Museum for Southern Jewish Life, hosted at Judaisme d'Alsace et de Lorraine, (other pages in French), accessed 1 September 2011〕〔(Peter Applebome, "Small-Town South Clings to Jewish History" ), ''New York Times,'' 29 September 1991,〕〔("Congregation Gemiluth Chassed" ), ''Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities'', Institute for Southern Jewish Life, accessed 1 September 2011〕
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