Typical of how both
residents and churches moved around Manhattan, Mount Olivet Baptist Church
and its congregation were originally located in the Rockefeller Center
area. The church is housed today in the former Temple Israel of Harlem,
one of the City's most noted synagogues of the early 20th-century German
Jewish Community. This structure was built in the Neo-Roman Style as
designed by Arnold W. Brunner in 1906-07. Brunner studied at the École
des Beaux Arts in Paris and was at the forefront of the design of grand
Classical Revival synagogues. The current congregation is to be commended
for maintaining the building in such exemplary condition since they
acquired it in 1925.