A historic New Jersey synagogue was engulfed by a four-alarm fire early Friday morning as a rabbi and his family of six "luckily" escaped the inferno.

Congregation Beth El in Rutherford, more than a century old, was destroyed. The mayor said there was no indication of arson so far.

An early investigation of the fire found no evidence of criminal intent. A fire early Friday morning destroyed a historic synagogue and Jewish community center in Rutherford, New Jersey, as the congregation’s rabbi and his family escaped unharmed.