Temple Ohabei Shalom (first) is dedicated.

The wooden building is located at 71 Warrenton Street (then Warren Street). The first synagogue building consecrated in Massachusetts, it seats 400. The first Jewish congregation in Boston and third in New England (after those in Newport and New Haven), it began meeting in a home on Carver Street in 1842 and was formerly organized on March 26, 1843. Henry Selling is the first rabbi. The congregation moves to a home on Albany Street in 1846, then to the former Fifth Universalist Church (second) at 74 Warrenton Street in 1852.* It becomes more Reform in the 1870s, moves to Union Park Street (third) in 1887,* to Marshall Street (fourth) in 1925, and to its current location (fifth) in Brookline in 1928.