Trinidad Chronicle News, November 12, 2025: Nancy Ellis With continuing good weather, Phase I of the re-roofing project at Trinidad’s historic Temple Aaron is well underway. A group of masons from Salida has been tuckpointing brick on the north side of the 1889 building, and soon will begin installing new roofing, according to Karl Gabrielson, whose company Trinidad Community Construction is managing the project. With a $237,000 grant from the State Historical Fund (including

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TOTAL FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN ESTIMATE: $2.25 million L’dor v’dor Endowment: $1,000,000 To ensure the continuity of basic operations and maintenance for another 100 years, an endowment will be created. A new regional model of Temple membership and affiliation, from Albuquerque to Denver and from Santa Fe to Boulder, is being created to ensure ongoing programming to keep the Temple operationally viable and strong. Raise the Roof Campaign: $500,000 The Temple’s complex, one of a k

The excerpt below is from the Western States Jewish History Quarterly, published by the Southern California Jewish Historical Society in October, 1978.

September 2016: The Rubin Family (Kathryn Rubin, 93, and her two sons, Ron Rubin of Colorado Springs and Randy Rubin of Raton, NM), who had been the caretakers of the Temple for 30 years, make the painful decision to close the Temple just before the High Holidays. For the first time since 1883, no services are conducted in Trinidad. Building is put up for sale. Closure is the subject of a front-page article in the Denver Post. The building needs significant and costly repairs

RENEWED OPTIMISM IN EFFORTS TO SAVE THE OLDEST SYNAGOGUE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS   The most historic synagogue in the Mountain West (that portion of the United States between the Dakotas and the West Coast) sits not in any big city but on a quiet street in the small town of Trinidad, Colorado. Trinidad is about 200 miles south of Denver and 15 miles north of the New Mexico border.  The town was founded in the 1860’s as a stop on the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail and th