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Fiern Hospital Synagogue

London N.11.

Updated 3 September 2006

Congregation Data

Official Name:	Friern Hospital Synagogue
Address:	Friern Hospital, New Southgate, London N11
Local Authority:	London Borough of Barnet (close to boundary with London Borough of Enfield) (Congregations in the London Borough of Barnet) (Congregations in the London Borough of Enfield)
Date Formed:	19 September 1957 (consecrated by Chief Rabbi Israel Brody)
Current Status:	Closed 1991
Ritual:	Ashkenazi Orthodox
Affiliation:	None
Membership Data:	Friern Hospital was a psychiatric hospital (it closed in 1993). The synagogue was for the patients. In 1959, there were reportedly 545 Jewish patients of whom approximately 75 attended the synagogue on a regular basis.

Other Information

Records
Congregation History
Photograph, Newspaper Articles and Personal Encounters
Bibliography:
- History of the Friern Hospital Synagogue and its Congregants. Balkin, H., Heritage No.4, Jewish Research Group of the Edmonton Hundred Historical Society, 1993 pp. 97-105.
- other Barnet Sources
- Enfield sources
- other London Sources
Cemetery Information

Greater London Congregations

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