Made of metal with a wooden handle.
Dedication Reads "T.T. Mishkan Israel, Corner Stone Laying, June 24,1923".
Good condition, some signs of rust at top of trowel.
Trowel was dedicated to a patron who assisted in the addition to the construction of the Astoria Center of Israel which was built as a Talmud Torah by the patrons of the older shul Mishkan Israel.
The “roots” of The Astoria Center of Israel can be traced back to the parent shul, the former Congregation Mishkan Israel. Mishkan Israel, whose building was erected in 1906, stood next to the shul from the time of its building inception in 1925—until a fire destroyed the Mishkan building in the 1980s. Records exist that can trace the beginnings of what became Congregation Mishkan Israel to the 1880s. So in a sense, the ACI has had a Jewish presence in Astoria since before the turn of the twentieth century.
In 1921, influenced by their Ladies Aid Society the women of whom, from even that time, were the major motivating force for Jewish education and culture in the neighborhood . The members of Congregation Mishkan Israel decided to build a new Talmud-Torah to meet the needs of a burgeoning Jewish population in the area. This was the original purpose for which the beautiful building came to be built.
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