Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation

Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation has been building community in the White Mountains for over 100 years. Jewish families, mostly from New York, New Jersey, and Boston, began vacationing in Bethlehem in 1916 and first worshipped in a store on Main Street beginning in 1920. The congregation purchased and began to use this building as a synagogue in 1928. The building had originally been the Church of the Nativity, built in 1877 on land donated by Rhode Island Governor Henry Howard. Recently restored and repaired, the synagogue is a regional center for Jewish social, cultural, and religious activities, and it is open in the summer and fall for religious services and community programs.

Bethlehem, New Hampshire · United States