Newport, RI · Founding Era Sites

Touro Synagogue

The oldest surviving synagogue building in the United States, in Newport — where George Washington wrote his famous 1790 letter promising religious liberty "to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance."

Why it matters

One of the clearest, earliest statements of American religious freedom, from Washington himself.

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