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Touro Synagogue Newport, Rhode Island
Oldest Existing Synagogue in the U.S.
Issued August 22, 2025 Scott #2017
First Stamp to be printed on a combined Intaglio and Gravure Press. 

      

Masonic Cover depicts George Washington
and the bible that was used for his Masonic Oath.

President George Washington visited Newport on August 17, 2025 and was presented with a letter from Moses Seixas, the President of the Touro Congregation, extolling the new government, which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance." Washington repeated this phrase in his reply and it has been credited to him ever since.
     

History of Touro Synagogue

      

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