Millinery Center Synagogue, Orthodox synagogue in the Garment District, Manhattan, United States

The Millinery Center Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue at 1 West 36th Street in Manhattan's Garment District. H.I. Feldman, a Yale-educated architect, designed the limestone building, which is about 19 feet wide and 60 feet deep and was completed in September 1948. It was notable for having air conditioning.

A group of ready-to-wear businessmen met in a loft on West 36th Street under Rabbi Moshe Ralbag before formally organizing in January 1933 at 1011 Sixth Avenue, second floor, with Moe Brillstein as president and a building fund. Wartime restrictions postponed construction until 1947; the building was completed and dedicated on September 12, 1948.

The name comes from the millinery trade that funded the congregation: hat-industry businessmen organized it in 1933, and Moe Brillstein, father of producer Bernie Brillstein, was its first president. Rabbi Avrohom Dov Kahn was elected in May 2017, the first rabbi chosen in over two decades, and was installed at a program where three young professionals described the synagogue's effect on them.

The synagogue stands at 5 West 37th Street, a narrow limestone building about 19 feet wide and 60 feet deep, so the entrance is easy to miss between larger Garment District buildings. It was built with air conditioning, unusual for 1948. Because the sanctuary is small, worshippers arrive early for daily services.

In its early years, worshippers attended prayer sessions in multiple shifts because so many people from the neighborhood's hat-making businesses needed to pray. This practice shows how tightly the synagogue was woven into the daily working life of the district.