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NYGWPB.763.120
22 Dec 1763:23 (1094)
New-Port, December 5. On Friday last, in the afternoon, was
the dedication of the new synagogue, in this town. It began
by a handsome procession, in which were carried the Books of
the Law, to be deposited in the Ark. Several portions of
Scripture, and of their Service, with a prayer for the Royal
Family, were read, and finely sung by the priest and people.
There were present many gentlemen and ladies. The order and
decorum, the harmony and solemnity of the musick, together
with a handsome assembly of people, in an edifice the most
perfect of the temple kind perhaps in America, and
splendidly illuminated, could not but raise in the mind a
faint idea of the majesty and grandeur of the antient Jewish
worship mentioned in Scripture.
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