Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue

Fieldgate Street, London E.1.

Re-created 18 May 2008
(original page, created 2003, having been deleted)
Latest revision or update: 9 September 2009

© Leslie Bailey 2007

Entrance to the Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue (August 2007)
Reproduced with the kind permission of Leslie Bailey

Congregation Data

Name:	Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue
Previous Name:	Fieldgate Street Synagogue
Address:	41 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1JU
Congregations Incorporated:	Lubner and Lomzer Synagogue (after 1947) Vine Court Synagogue (1965) Alie Street Synagogue (1969) Ezras Chaim, Ain Yacov and Poltava Synagogue (1973) Stepney Orthodox Synagogue (after 1966)
Local Authority:	London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Current Status:	Synagogue extant but no longer generally active. The last regular service held 22 September 2007. However, the synagogue was reopened for services on the "High Holyday" (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) in 2008.
Date Founded:	1899
Ritual:	Orthodox - Ashkenazi
Affiliation:	An affiliated synagogue to the Federation of Synagogues. (List of Federation congregations) (A section of members were, and some may still be, affiliated for burial rights to the West End Great Synagogue.)
Membership Data:	1905 - 140 (Jewish Year Book 1906) 1915 - 150 (Jewish Year Book 1916)

Other Information

Synagogue & Other Records
Congregation History
Newspaper Articles, Photographs, and Personal Encounters
Bibliography:
- The Synagogues of London. Lindsay, P., 1993 (Valentine Mitchell, London) p. 51-53
- "Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue synagogues" - Issue No. 2 of the Cable - the magazine of the Jewish East End Celebration Society, pp 33-35.
- "The sound of the shofar has been heard for the last time at Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue synagogues" - Issue No. 5, 2007, of the Cable - the magazine of the Jewish East End Celebration Society, pp 55-56.
- "What a davener, what a voice!" - Rev. Baruch Smus of Fieldgate Street Synagogue . 2009. Issue No. 10 of the Cable - the magazine of the Jewish East End Celebration Society, pp 37-40.
- other Tower Hamlet sources
- other London sources
Cemetery Information:
- Cemeteries of the Federation of Synagogues
- Cemeteries of the West End Great Synagogue

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