Bikur Cholim Sephardic school class, 1937

Bikur Cholim Sephardic school class, 1937

Courtesy of UW Special Collections

Bikur Cholim - Then & Now

Taking a Look Inside Seattle’s Oldest Jewish Congregations

Founded in 1891, Bikur Cholim–Machzikay Hadath (BCMH) is Seattle’s oldest Jewish congregation and the largest Ashkenazic Orthodox synagogue in the region. The congregation moved to Seward Park in the 1960s, merged with Machzikay Hadath in 1971, and celebrated the opening of its new synagogue the following year.

The creation of this page was sponsored by the current and past members of Bikur Cholim and their families, 4Culture, Eli Genauer, Bobbie Stern, and Dorothy Lederman.