Exhibits at the Loeb Visitors Center
As you begin your visit at the Loeb Visitors Center, 52 Spring Street, you can explore interactive, multi-media exhibits that examine America’s first freedoms. Discover how Newport’s colonial community laid the groundwork for our First Amendment Rights. Celebrate over 250 years of Touro Synagogue history, Newport’s colonial Jewish community, the origins of religious freedom and separation of church and state.
Early Jewish American Portraits
Scroll through hundreds of portraits of early American Jewish men, women and children from 1700–1865. Learn more.
Stories of Early Newport Jewish Residents
Among those featured are Issac, Abraham and Judah Touro, Moses Seixas and Emma Lazarus.
Touro Synagogue Architect Peter Harrison
Known as “America’s First Architect,” Peter Harrison is credited with bringing Palladian architecture to the Colonies.
Vignettes of Colonial Newport Life
Listen and watch reenactments of colonial Newport that explain the relationships between Jewish and Christian neighbors, stories of commerce and trade and other aspects of Newport’s 18th century life.
Building Access
The Loeb Visitors Center is wheelchair accessible, but Touro Synagogue is not fully accessible without 24-hour advance notice. For assistance with accessibility please email tours@tourosynagogue.org or call 401-847-4794 ext. 207.
Congregation Jeshuat Israel
