Loop Synagogue

{{Short description|Synagoge in Chicago, Illinois, United States}}

{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2024}}

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| name = Chicago Loop Synagogue

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| image = Chicago_Loop_Synagogue_(51575324259).jpg

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| religious_affiliation = Orthodox Judaism

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| organisational_status = Synagogue

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| functional_status = Active

| religious_features_label = Notable artworks

| religious_features = {{ubl|Abraham Rattner stained-glass windows;|Nehemia Azaz sculpture}}

| location = 16 South Clark Street, Loop, Chicago, Illinois 60603

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| country = United States

| map_type = United States Chicago Loop

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| map_caption = Location in the Chicago Loop, Illinois

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| coordinates = {{Coordinates|41|52|54|N|87|37|53|W|region:US-IL_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}

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| architect = Loebl, Schlossman & Bennett

| architecture_type = Synagogue

| architecture_style = Modernist

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| established = 1929 {{small|(as a congregation)}}

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| year_completed = 1958

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| materials = Glass, metal (brass and bronze} and concrete

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| website = {{url|chiloopsyn.org}}

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| footnotes = {{cite book |last=Chiat |first=Marilyn Joyce |title=The Spiritual Traveler—Chicago and Illinois: A Guide to Sacred Sites and Peaceful Places |publisher=Hidden Spring |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-58768-010-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NGeiB03MlRIC&pg=PA104 |via=Google Books }}{{rp|104}}{{cite web|url=https://openhousechicago.org/sites/site/chicago-loop-synagogue/ |website=Open House Chicago |date=n.d. |access-date=2018-05-26 |title=Chicago Loop Synagogue}}

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The Chicago Loop Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue, located at 16 South Clark Street, in the Loop precinct of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. Completed in 1958,{{citation|title=Jewish Routes: Chicago|author=Lavine, Eileen |date=January 13, 2016|work=Moment|url=https://www.momentmag.com/jewish-routes-chicago/}} the synagogue is renowned for a stained glass artwork by Abraham Rattner.{{rp|72}}

The synagogue was founded in 1929 by the United Synagogue of America to serve the needs of Jewish professionals working in Chicago’s downtown business district, providing kosher food and a place to pray during the workday. Following the COVID-19 global pandemic, there were concerns that, due to the exodus of workers from the city center, the synagogue would be unable to sustain its future operating costs.{{cite news |author=Cooper, Alanna E. |url=https://forward.com/news/467794/future-in-question-for-chicago-loop-synagogue-and-its-monumental-stained/ |title=Future in question for Chicago Loop Synagogue and its monumental stained-glass window |work=The Forward |date=April 15, 2021 |access-date=January 9, 2024 }}{{cite news |author=Chiarito, Bob |url=https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/05/17/downtown-synagogue-hopes-worshippers-return-soon-to-save-building-and-its-historic-stained-glass-window/ |title=Downtown Synagogue Hopes Worshippers Return Soon To Save Building — And Its Famed Stained Glass Window |work=Block Club Chicago |date=May 17, 2021 |access-date=January 9, 2024 }}{{cite news |author= |url=https://www.preservationchicago.org/threatened-shrinking-membership-threatens-chicago-loop-synagogue-faces-uncertain-future/ |title=THREATENED: Shrinking Membership Threatens Chicago Loop Synagogue Faces Uncertain Future |work=Preservation Chicago |date=May 31, 2021 |access-date=January 9, 2024 }}{{cite news |author=Smithson, Aaron |url=https://www.archpaper.com/2021/06/with-commuter-congregation-waning-the-chicago-loop-synagogue-faces-an-uncertain-future/ |title=With commuter congregation waning, the Chicago Loop Synagogue faces an uncertain future |work=The Architect's Newspaper |date=June 8, 2021 |access-date=January 9, 2024 }}