Bevis Marks Synagogue

City of London, London E.C.3.

Created 17 March 2003
Latest revision or update: 15 September 2009

Gates to the Court Yard of the Bevis Marks Synagogue
© David Shulman 2007

Courtyard of the Bevis Marks Synagogue
following wedding in September 2007
© David Shulman 2007

Congregation Data

Official Name:	Bevis Marks Synagogue
Alternative Name:	Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation
Address:	Bevis Marks, London EC3A 5DQ
Local Authority:	City of London
Current Status:	Active
Date Founded:	1701 (although was successor to Synagogue in Creechurch Lane founded in 1657)
Ritual:	Sephardi Orthodox
Affiliation:	A constituent of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation Note: The other synagogues which comprise to the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation are: the Lauderdale Road Synagogue; the Wembley Sephardi Synagogue; and the Montefiore Synagogue, Ramsgate. (In addition, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Holland Park, was established under a Deed of Association with the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation.) The former Sephardi Synagogue in Bryanston Road, formerly in Wigmore Street, W1, was a branch congregation of Bevis Marks. (List of Sephardi congregations)
Listed Buildings:	The synagogue building (built 1699-99 - architect Joseph Avis) is a Grade 1 Listed Building. The Congregation's Mile End Velho Cemetery (no longer in use) at 253 Mile End Road, London E1 (opened 1657.) is Listed Grade II.
Website:	http://www.sandp.org

Other Information

Records:
- Marriage Records included in the ALL UK searchable database for London:
  Bevis Marks - 1,253 Marriage Records, 1836 – 1901.
- Other Records
Congregation History
Photographs, Newspaper Articles & Personal Encounters
Bibliography:
- First London Synagogue of the Resettlement. Samuel, W.S. & Castello, M.N., J. Transactions - Jewish Historical Society of England X 1921/3
- Bevis Marks in History. Goodman, P 1934 Oxford University Press
- Bevis Marks Records I, II & III. Barnett, R.D. and Whitehill, G.H. 1940 London
- The Laws and Charities of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews Congregation of London. Laski, N. 1952 Cresset Press.
- Correspondence of the Mahammad of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews Congregation of London during the 17th and 18th Centuries. Barnett, R.D.J. Transactions - Jewish Historical Society of England XX 1959/61
- Problems of the London Sephardi Community 1720-33. Diamond, A.S. Transactions - Jewish Historical Society of England XXI 1962/67
- The Sephardim of England. Hyamson, A.M. 1951 (Methuen & Co., London)
- The Bevis Marks Synagogue. Barnett, R.D. and Levy, A 1975 (Society of Hashaim, London)
- The Oldest Synagogue, Hyamson A.M.
- The Synagogues of Europe. Krinsky, C. H. 1985 (The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge MA). pp. 412-415
- The Synagogues of London. Lindsay, P., 1993 (Valentine Mitchell, London) pp. 38-41
- The Burial Grounds of the Resettlement. Kadish, Sharman. 2006. Issue No. 1 of the Cable - the magazine of the Jewish East End Celebration Society, pp 12-14.
- other City sources
- other London sources
Cemetery Information:
- Cemeteries of the the Spanish and Portuguese Congregations

Street Directory of Synagogues in East End and City of London

City of London Congregations

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