BETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUEBeth Israel was built in 1918 on Grafton Street. The city once had four synagogues, now with Beth Israel's closing there is only one; Temple Beth El. Members must decide where to send Beth Israel's Torah scrolls and the sanctuary's tall, elaborately carved wooden Ark, in which the scrolls are kept. Beth Israel opened during World War I, when thousands of immigrants flocked to Quincy to work at the Fore River shipyard.
