New Road Synagogue

Whitechapel, London E.1.

Updated 6 December 2006
Latest revision or update: 10 September 2009

Congregation Data

Official Name:	New Road Synagogue
Address:	115 New Road, Whitechapel, London E1
Local Authority:	London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Date Founded:	Consecrated 24 May 1892 (A marble stone commemorating this event, containing a letter, in lapidary form, from the private secretary of Queen Victoria, now stands in the East London Central Synagogue, Nelson Street.)
Current Status:	Closed in 1974. Amalgamated with East London Central Synagogue
Ritual:	Orthodox - Ashkenazi
Affiliation:	An affiliated synagogue of the Federation of Synagogues
Membership Data:	1896 - 145 members (Jewish Year Book 1896-1897) 1905 - 153 members (Jewish Year Book 1906) 1915 - 151 members (Jewish Year Book 1916)

Other Information

Congregation History & Records
Photographs, Newspaper Articles & Personal Encounters
Bibliography:
- New Road's long closed Synagogue is commemorated at Nelson Street. 2007. Issue No. 5 of the Cable - the magazine of the Jewish East End Celebration Society, pp 11-17.
- New Road Synagogue. 2007. Issue No. 5 of the Cable - the magazine of the Jewish East End Celebration Society, pp 18-20.
- other Tower Hamlet sources
- other London sources
Cemetery Information:
- Cemeteries of the Federation of Synagogues

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