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Scarborough Street Synagogue(formerly Gun Yard "Polish" Synagogue)City of London, London E.C.3. |
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Scarborough Street Synagogue(formerly Gun Yard "Polish" Synagogue)City of London, London E.C.3. |
Created 29 August 2006
Latest Update 14 August 2007
Congregation Data
| Official Name: | Scarborough Street Synagogue |
| Former Name: | The Gun Yard "Polish" Synagogue or Gun Square "Polish" Synagogue |
| Address: | Scarborough Street, Goodman's Fields, London E1 Previously in Mansell Street, London E1 (from at least 1870) And prior thereto, in Gun Yard (or Gun Square), off Hounsditch, London E.C.3. (not to be confused with Gun Street in Spitalfields, to the North) |
| Date Formed: | 1792 - one of the three minor congregations established in London in the eighteenth century. The others were the Rosemary Lane Congregation and the Cutler Street "Polish" Synagogue. |
| Current Status: | Closed, 1920's (based upon latest appearance in Jewish Year Books) |
| Ritual: | Ashkenazi Orthodox |
| Affiliation: | Initially, may have been a dependency of the
New Synagogue. Was one of the congregations that attended the meeting of 16 October 1887 to form the Federation of Synagogues, and became one of the original federated synagogues on 6 November 1887. (List of Federation congregations) |
| Membership Data: | 1870 - 130 members (Social History of
the Jews in England by V. D. Lipman, p.74) 1896 - 52 members (Jewish Year Book 1896-1897) 1905 - 83 members (Jewish Year Book 1906) 1915 - 96 members (Jewish Year Book 1916) |
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