First look at the condoplex that replaced a former synagogue on 4th Street

Workers recently removed the sidewalk scaffolding at 256 E. Fourth St. between Avenue B and Avenue C — offering the first unobstructed look at the new residential building rising on the site of a former synagogue-turned-church. 

As previously reported, the property housed the Iglesia Bautista Emmanuel, which itself occupied a building that began life in 1925 as the Lemberger Congregation Anshei Ashkenaz, one of the East Village's many "tenement synagogues."

The structure was gutted and replaced with a new six-story condo development expected to contain several residences. 

Project architect Stephen Conte told the Post last year that there was no way to save the original façade, as decades of water damage rendered the already-thin front walls unsafe.

Preservationists had voiced concern about the loss of one of the neighborhood’s remaining historic synagogue buildings, part of a broader wave of redevelopment reshaping the East Village and surrounding neighborhoods. 

For months, the work here was hidden behind scaffolding. Now it's all in plain view ... and the past is harder to see.

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ICYMI: Here's a New York Municipal Archive photo from the early 1940s, when this was the Lemberger Congregation Anshei Ashkenaz. The property, dating to 1859, was once part of Petrus Stuyvesant's estate.