Hotels near Ottawa’s Synagogues

Note that blue pins are the synagogues, yellow pins are some of the other Jewish organizations, and the red pins are some of the hotels near the shuls. As you can see, only Ohev Yisroel and Beth Shalom, and Agudath Israel and Young Israel have hotels within walking distance.

These are Ottawa’s synagogues:

• Adath Shalom, an egalitarian Conservative synagogue, located at the Soloway JCC campus, 31 Nadolny Sachs Private in Ottawa’s west end
• Agudath Israel, a traditional egalitarian Conservative synagogue, located 1400 Coldrey Avenue in Ottawa’s west end neighbourhood of Carlington
• Beth Shalom, a Conservative synagogue, located at 151 Chapel Street, in downtown Ottawa. It’s the oldest synagogue structure in Ottawa, and was built in the 1950s after three 1890s/early 1900s synagogues merged.
• Congregation Beit Tikvah of Ottawa, a Modern Orthodox syngagogue, located at 15 Chartwell Avenue  in Craig Henry. This synagogue was previously Beth Shalom West.
• Chabad of Centrepoint, a Chabad centre which also functions as a synagogue, is located at 13 Cedar Grove Court, in Centrepoint/Leslie Park.
• Machzikei Hadas, a Modern Orthodox synagogue, located at 2310 Virginia Drive in Alta Vista. This was the first synagogue in the Commonwealth to be granted a coat of arms, and its rabbi is Rabbi Bulka.
• Ottawa Reconstructionist Havurah, located at 99 Fifth Avenue, Suite 136 in the Glebe.
• Ottawa Torah Center Chabad, which houses a Chabad Lubavitch synagogue, located at 111 Lamplighters Drive in Old Barrhaven.
• Orthodox Community Ohev Yisroel, an Orthodox synagogue, located at 516 Rideau Street in downtown Ottawa.
• Temple  Israel, a Reform synagogue, located at 1301 Prince of Wales drive. It’s the third largest synagogue in Ottawa.
• Young Israel of Ottawa, an Orthodox synagogue, located at 627 Kirkwood Avenue in Hampton Park.

History of Ottawa

The first inhabitants of this region were the Algonquin Indians, who called the river Kichi Sibi or Kichissippi’ meaning “Great River” or “Grand River”. Étienne Brûlé was the first European to visit the area, in 1610; Samuel de Champlain followed three years later. The French named the area after the Outaouais tribe, who lived here for about ten years and served as middlemen in the fur trade.