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Congregation Tifereth Israel (Splendor of Israel) is an Orthodox synagogue located in the Corona section of Queens New York. It was founded by Ashkenazi Jews who had moved to Queens from Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Estée Lauder and her parents were early members.The congregation constructed its synagogue building in 1911 a wooden Gothic and Moorish revival structure designed by Crescent L. Varrone and modeled after the narrow tenement synagogues built on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
