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New Dalston Synagogue

London E.8.

Created 6 September 2006
Latest revision 3 August 2007

Congregation Data

Official Name: New Dalston Synagogue
Address: Birkbeck Road, London E.8 (from at least 1887, although the consecration of synagogue (which was on the first floor) and schools or Talmud Torah (on the ground floor) did not take place until 22 June 1888)
Previously, for a short time, worshipped in a Sandringham Road, Dalston, London E.8
Local Authority: London Borough of Hackney - (Congregations in locality)
Date Formed: Formed as a secessionist congregation from the Dalston Synagogue in, or some time before, 1887.
Current Status: Moved in about 1903 and became the Stoke Newington Synagogue (which was actually situated in Dalston) and which closed in 1976.
Ritual: Ashkenazi Orthodox
Affiliation: A founding member of the Federation of Synagogue in 1887 (the only founding member not situated in London's East End).  In 1898, affiliation was sought with the United Synagogue (of which its successor congregation, Stock Newington Synagogue, was a constituent synagogue from 1903.)
Membership Data: 1896  -  135 members  (Jewish Year Book 1896-1897)

New Dalston Information

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