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A bride is suing a historic Lower East Side synagogue that was closed by the city for structural problems five days before she was to be married there.

Lisa Goldstein moved her April 5 wedding to Keith Helman from the crumbling Angel Orensanz Center to the High Line Hotel.

She got a partial refund of $13,000. But she is owed another $5,000, her suit claims, plus $54,000 in “consequential damages” for the last-minute switch, including wasted invitations and a tent at the new site.

Goldstein’s attorney Stuart Slotnick said if Orensanz had “taken the steps necessary to fix the building, they never would’ve been shut down by the city.”

Orensanz did not return messages.

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