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Ligonier is a city in Perry Township, Noble County, in northeastern Indiana.

Ligonier was platted in 1835 and named after the borough of Ligonier in Pennsylvania, and its post office has operated since 1848.

Ligonier's population was 4,568 at the 2020 Census, and the city has roughly 1,490 households, according to Census Bureau survey estimates.

Ligonier has a remarkable Jewish heritage: German Jewish merchants Frederick Straus and Solomon Mier arrived in 1854 and built a thriving merchant community in the small city.

Around 1900 Ligonier's Jewish community peaked at more than 200 people - roughly a tenth of the town's population - and the neighborhood where many of them lived was nicknamed "New Jerusalem."

Jewish residents were central to Ligonier's civic life and produced three of the city's mayors.

Congregation Ahavath Sholom, formed in the 1860s, dedicated the Ahavas Shalom Reform Temple in 1889, an occasion at which Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, a founder of Reform Judaism in America, spoke.

Ligonier's 1889 synagogue building is one of the few surviving 19th-century synagogues in the United States and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Ligonier's last Jewish resident died in 1981, closing a chapter of more than 125 years of Jewish life in the city.

Ligonier bills itself as the "City of Murals," with painted murals decorating buildings across its downtown.