| |
 |
| |
Click on image to enlarge |
Temple Israel
Roanoke Avenue & State Street
(now Dinsmore Avenue & Nameoke Street)
Far Rockaway (Queens), N.Y. 11691
Temple Israel was a Reform synagogue organized about 1907 by a handful of devout Jews in Far Rockaway. Early meetings and services were held in the Horton Building on Central Avenue, after which the society moved to the Masonic Temple on Mott Street when it opened in 1911. Meanwhile, a plot of land on the corner of Roanoke Avenue and State Street (now named Dinsmore Avenue & Nameoke Street) was purchased and construction began on a permanent temple building. The cornerstone was laid in 1908, and the completed building was dedicated in July 1911.
In 1930, the congregation moved to new quarters on Central Avenue Lawrence, N.Y., which is in Nassau County. The old synagogue building was sold to Congregation Knesseth Israel, an Orthodox congregation founded in Far Rockaway in 1922. |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
M. P. Möller, Inc.
Hagerstown, Md. – Opus 1256 (1911)
Tubular-pneumatic action
2 manuals, 14 stops, 8 ranks
The Agreement (May 2, 1911) between M.P. Möller and Temple Israel of Far Rockaway states that Möller would build a new organ for a sum of $2,000. For this organ Möller employed tubular-pneumatic action on a duplex chest. Möller indicated that the organ would be "complete and ready for use on or before the 1st day of July 1911." In fact, the organ was shipped on June 16, 1911. |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Great Organ (Manual I) – 61 notes, enclosed
|
8 |
|
Open Diapason |
61 |
8 |
|
Salicional |
73 |
8 |
|
Doppel Floete (wood) |
73 |
4 |
|
Flute Harmonique |
73 |
8 |
|
Dulciana |
73 |
8 |
|
Oboe |
73 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Swell Organ (Manual II) – 61 notes, enclosed
|
8 |
|
Doppel Floete |
— |
8 |
|
Voix Celeste [TC] |
61 |
8 |
|
Dulciana |
— |
4 |
|
Flute Harmonique |
— |
8 |
|
Salicional |
— |
8 |
|
Oboe |
— |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pedal Organ – 30 notes
|
16 |
|
Bourdon |
42 |
|
|
|
|
8 |
|
Flute [ext.] |
— |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Couplers
|
| |
|
Great to Pedal |
|
|
|
Swell to Great 4' |
|
| |
|
Swell to Pedal |
|
|
|
Swell 16' |
|
| |
|
Swell to Great 16' |
|
|
|
Swell 4' |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mechanicals
|
| |
|
Tremulant |
|
|
|
Wind Indicator |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Crescendo Indicator |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Adjustable Combination Pistons
|
| |
|
Pistons No. 1-2 Affecting Great & Pedal Stops |
| |
|
Pistons No. 1-2 Affecting Swell & Pedal Stops |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pedal Movements
|
| |
|
Balanced Swell Pedal |
|
Great to Pedal Reversible |
| |
|
Grand Crescendo Pedal |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Sources:
Bellot, Alfred H. History of the Rockaways from the year 1685 to 1917. Far Rockaway, N.Y.: Bellot's Histories, Inc., 1917.
The Leiman Library (Kew Gardens, N.Y.) web site: http://leimanlibrary.com/
Trupiano, Larry. Factory Agreement and Specifications (May 2, 1911) of M.P. Möller Organ, Op. 1256.
Ilustration:
The Leiman Library web site. Postcard (undated) of Temple Israel. |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|