Touro Synagogue

Since 1828, Touro Synagogue has been providing Synagogue from New Orleans.

Touro Synagogue was formed with the merger of two existing Jewish congregations of New Orleans: the German Jewish Shangarai Chasset and the Sephardic Portuguese Jewish Nefutzot Yehudah in 1828. Touro is now a reform synagogue and plays an active role in the local community, especially with its annual Jazzfest Shabbatwhich coincides with the New Orleans Jazz Festival .

New Orleans is a city like no other, and Touro Synagogue is a Jewish community like no other. Touro Synagogue offers an historically fascinating, yet very contemporary approach to Jewish life – right in the center of Uptown New Orleans. The flavor of this city is expressed in the people, the architecture, the food, the music, the live oak trees – and those are just the beginning. The texture of...