Loeb Visitors Center at Touro Synagogue to Offer Free Admission to RI Residents

Loeb Visitors Center at Touro Synagogue to Offer Free Admission to RI Residents

The Loeb Visitors Center at Touro Synagogue in Newport is celebrating its 10th anniversary by giving free admission to all Rhode Island residents.

The offer extends now through December 31, 2019.

The Loeb Visitors Center

GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST

The Loeb Visitors Center tells the story of religious freedom and tolerance in Rhode Island.

Among the exhibits at the center is President George Washington’s 1790 Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport.

In his letter, Washington promised that the government of the United States would give “to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.” 

Visitors to the Center learn how religious liberty and the separation between church and state in colonial America, unique in the world at that time, originated in Rhode Island, setting up for the ratification and adoption in 1791 of the Bill of Rights.

The Loeb Visitors Center serves as the gateway to guided tours of Touro Synagogue.

The tours welcome fifteen-thousand guests each year, most of whom hail from out-of-state and overseas.