Brixton Synagogue

London S.W.2.

Created: 21 September 2006
Latest revision or update: 25 August 2009

© Leslie Bailey 2008

The preserved front of the former Brixton Synagogue, Effra Road (August 2008)
Now Used by Eurolink Business Centre
Reproduced with the kind permission of Leslie Bailey

Congregation Data

Official Name:

Brixton Synagogue

Address:

49 Effra Road, Brixton, London S.W.2 (opened 1913, enlarged and re-consecrated 25 September 1921, damaged by fire in 1956)
From 1905 to 1909, services were held in Carlton Hall, Turnstall Road, Brixton, and at 44 Brixton Hill from 1909 to 1913

Local Authority:

London Borough of Lambeth - (Congregations in the locality)

Date Formed:

1905

Incorporated Congregations:

Borough Synagogue in 1961

Current Status:

Closed about 1986 - amalgamated with Streatham Synagogue (which had separated from Brixton Synagogue in 1946)

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Affiliation:

A constituent synagogue of the United Synagogue from 1913 until its closure. (List of United Synagogue congregations) (Until 1913, members belonged to the Western Synagogue Burial Fund)

Membership Data:

Number of male seat holders (United Synagogue 1870-1970)

1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970
352	356	473	508	614	526

Other Information

Records
Congregation History
Photographs, Newspaper Articles and Personal Encounters
Bibliography:
- Fifty Golden Years, A History of the Brixton Synagogue. Cohen, L.. 1958 (Published by the congregation)
- The Lost Synagogues of London. Renton, P., 2000 (Tymsder Publications, London) pp. 134-137
- other Lambeth sources
- other London sources
Cemetery Information:
- Cemeteries of the United Synagogue
- Western Synagogue Cemeteries

Greater London Community

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