Congregation Adas Emuno (New Jersey)

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Congregation Adas Emuno is a Reform Jewish synagogue in Leonia, Bergen County, New Jersey. It is active today.

The congregation began in Hoboken in 1871. In 1873 they moved into a new synagogue and received a Torah scroll as a gift.

In 1883 they built a small synagogue at 637 Garden Street. The building blends Gothic Revival and Romanesque Revival styles and is the oldest synagogue building in New Jersey. It later became a church and is now a residential building.

In 1971 the congregation moved to Leonia, into a brick building bought from the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church.

Adas Emuno owns two cemeteries. The smaller one is a section of Hoboken Cemetery (originally part of Flower Hill Cemetery). The larger one is in North Arlington, across from Arlington Memorial Park on Belleville Turnpike. Adas Emuno may have been the first to use this cemetery, with other Jewish groups adding sections later.

The cemetery gate shows the Hebrew year 5669 (1909), and gravestones there date back to 1899.