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National Historic Landmarks Program

In general, the following properties require special consideration:

• Properties owned by religious institutions or used for religious purposes

• Buildings or structures that have been moved from their original location

• Site of a building or structure no longer standing

• Birthplaces and graves of historical figures

• Cemeteries

• Reconstructed buildings or grouping of buildings

• Properties that are primarily commemorative in nature

• Properties that have achieved national significance within the past 50 years

photograph by asparagirl via Flickr
St. Thomas Synagogue, VI: Saint Thomas Synagogue was built in 1833. It is the second-oldest synagogue under the American flag and the oldest in continuous use. In 1796, Sephardic Jews built the first synagogue on this site (the current synagogue is the fourth on this site). The congregation reached its zenith in the mid-nineteenth century, declined in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with the fortunes of the Danish Virgin Islands, and grew again in the late twentieth century.