Shaarai Shomayim

Historical marker location:

Mobile, Alabama

( Marker is on Government Street, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2006

First Jewish House of Worship in Alabama - 1846.

The city of Anniston, Alabama was the site of one of the most violent incidents of the Civil Rights Era. In 1961, a bus carrying Freedom Riders, a group of civil rights activists, was attacked and set on fire by a mob in Anniston.