Frederick Wedding

Frederick, Maryland is a city in Frederick County, Maryland, and is also the county seat. As of the 2004 census estimates, the city has a total population of 57,009 [1], making it the fourth-largest city in Maryland following Rockville, Gaithersburg, and Baltimore, which has the largest population. Frederick's newspaper of record is The Frederick News-Post. Frederick is home to Frederick Municipal Airport (FDK), which primarily accommodates general aviation traffic.

Frederick Town was laid out in 1745 and became the county seat of Frederick County three years later. It is uncertain which Frederick the town was named for, but the likeliest candidates are Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore and Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales.

Frederick had Jewish residents as early as the 1740s, when pioneers Henry Lazarus and Levy Cohan settled there as merchants. An organized Jewish community, comprised mainly of German Jewish immigrants, took shape in the mid-nineteenth century and the Frederick Hebrew Congregation was organized in 1858. Later the congregation lapsed, but was reorganized in 1919 as a cooperative effort between the older settlers and more recently arrived Eastern European Jews under the name Beth Sholom.