|
Official Name: |
Spital Square Poltava Synagogue |
| Address: |
2a Heneage Street, London E.1
10 Spital Square, Bishopsgate, London E1 (until about 1935) |
|
Formation: |
Apparently formed in the 1920's by the merger of: |
Spital Square Synagogue
(formerly German Synagogue, New Broad Street
or Old Broad
Street)
of Spital Square, Bishopsgate,
London E1 |
Poltava Synagogue
50½ Hanbury Street, London E1
(The
Glory of Israel and Sons of Klatsk Synagogue
was at this address from late 1920's.) |
| Founded in 1858, to include a benefit
society, known as Hevra Bikur Cholim) |
Founded by 1915 |
| Local Authority: |
London Borough of Tower Hamlets |
| Current Status: |
Closed after or about 1947 - (probably merged with Ezras Chaim
Synagogue to form
Ezras Chaim, Ain Yacov
and Poltava Synagogue). |
| Ritual: |
Orthodox - Ashkenazi |
| Affiliation: |
An affiliated synagogue of the Federation
of Synagogues, as were the two separate synagogues prior to the merger.
The Spital Square Synagogue hosted the meeting of 16 October 1887, at
which it was decided to form the Federation of Synagogues (initially
known as the Federation of Minor Synagogues), and became one of the
original federated synagogues on 6 November 1887.
(List of
Federation
congregations) |
|
Membership Data: |
Spital Square Synagogue
1870 - 300 members of the benefit society
(Social History of Jews in England, V. D. Lipman)
1896 - 120 members (Jewish Year Book 1896)
1905 - 110 members (Jewish
Year Book
1906)
1915 - 113 members (Jewish
Year Book
1916) |
Poltava Synagogue
1915 - 65 members (Jewish Year Book 1916) |
