Welcome to TAA

For more than a hundred years, we have been, quite simply, the center of Jewish life on Cape Ann and surrounding towns. If you live on the North Shore, or if you are visiting our scenic area, please make TAA your Jewish home. We are affiliated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, and we are profoundly inclusive. We share prayer, learning, arts and culture, holidays, good works, and the joys of lifelong community.



On December 15, 2007, our landmark 180-year-old building burned to the ground. Left with only the granite foundation and our determination to hold fast to each other, we renewed our vows as a sacred community and committed ourselves to rebuilding. Since the fire, we have not missed a single service, Hebrew school class, or maj jongg game.

Now after nearly three years in our home away from home on the harbor, we are preparing to rebuild on our historic Middle Street site in downtown Gloucester.

With extensive input from TAA members about their visions for the new temple, Maryann Thompson Architects of Cambridge, Massachusetts have developed a home for our congregation that reflects our values and our vision. It is incredibly beautiful, awe-inspiring, light-filled, energy efficient and environmentally friendly. With space for study, prayer, singing, art, dance and theater, we hope our new building will invite people to enter, interpret, and expand on our tradition, and find within it meaning for their lives. We plan to break ground next spring and to celebrate High Holy Days 2011 in our new synagogue.

View schematic drawings of the new temple.

In the meantime, we continue to pray, study, sing and schmooze together at 33 Commercial Street. We invite you to join us.