City overview
Toronto is Canada's largest city, home to about 3 million people on the shore of Lake Ontario, with world-class museums, a lively waterfront and Niagara Falls within day-trip range. It also has one of North America's largest Jewish communities, about 187,000 people across the Toronto region. Orthodox life runs along Bathurst Street, from Forest Hill and Bathurst–Lawrence north through Bathurst Manor and North York into Thornhill, a corridor lined with shuls, kollels, kosher restaurants, bakeries and groceries and covered by a community eruv. Downtown, where most hotels are, has a Chabad house but little kosher food and no eruv, so observant visitors often base themselves uptown.
Anshei Minsk Synagogue
Toronto, ON · Free
Kensington Market's 1930 'Minsker shul', a City-recognized heritage synagogue and long the only downtown Orthodox shul with a daily minyan.
Time needed
30 minutes or a service
Hours
Weekday Shacharit 7:40 AM, with Mincha and Maariv also held; Shabbat services, visitors welcome; no separate visiting hours
Tips
The shul welcomes visitors at Shabbat services; check with the shul before relying on a weekday minyan.
Phone
647-770-3479Website
https://www.theminsk.com/Neighborhood
Kensington Market
Activity providers
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