A Sephardic home in West Boca

Congregation Bircat Shalom was founded by families who wanted a place to daven in the nusach they grew up with — the melodies of Morocco, Syria, Iraq, Egypt and beyond — without giving up the closeness of a small minyan.

We are unaffiliated with any large institution and proud of it. There are no membership hurdles, no assigned seats you have to earn, and no one is turned away for lack of means. If you walk in on a Shabbat morning, someone will hand you a siddur and find you a seat.

Our services are led by our own hazanim together with visiting hazanim who return to us year after year for the High Holy Days. Children daven alongside their parents, and the kiddush afterward is as much a part of the morning as the tefillah itself.