Formed as a congregation in 1883, Goel Tzedec was first housed for one year in rented quarters on Richmond Street, since transformed from a quiet residential street into one of the busiest thoroughfares in present downtown Toronto. It resided the next 20 years at the corner of University Avenue and Elm Street in a church building bought and remodeled, and dwelt for the next half century in the new permanent home built on University Avenue just below Dundas Street. Originally founded as an orthodox congregation, Goel Tzedec remained loyal to the principles and observances of traditional Judaism, though it later, in 1925, officially enrolled in the Conservative Synagogue movement and gradually introduced certain changes such as family pews, a revised prayer book, English prayers and the Bat Mitzvah. Beth Hamidrash Hagadol . . .