The Hambro' Synagogue

City of London, London EC3

and Commercial Road, London E1

Created: 24 May 2006
Latest revision or update: 7 February 2012

Congregation Data

Official Name:

The Hambro' Synagogue

Addresses:

1707 to 1725 (or 1720) - Home of Marcus Moses, Magpie Alley, Fenchurch Street
1725 (or 1720) to 1893 - Magpie Alley (later Church Passage), Fenchurch Street, London EC3
1893 to 1899 - Services were held in the vestry room of the Great Synagogue
1899 to 1936 - Adler Street (formerly Union Street ), Commercial Road, Aldgate, London E1 (consecrated by chief Rabbi Dr. H. Adler on 27 August 1899)

Date Formed:

1707 (synagogue built 1725)

Current Status:

Closed in 1936, when it amalgamated with the Great Synagogue.

Local Authority:

London Borough of Tower Hamlets, previously in the City of London.

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Affiliation:

One of the original five synagogues that formed the United Synagogue in 1870, of which it remained a constituent member until 1936. (List of United Synagogue congregations)

Membership Data:

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

1870	1880	1890	1900	1910	1920	1930
161	162	102	199	212	211	207

Other Information

Records:
- Marriage Records included in the ALL UK searchable database for London:
  263 records Hambro' Synagogue Marriages, 1797-1837
Congregation History
Bibliography:
- The History of the Hambro' Synagogue on the Occasion of its 200th Anniversary. Esterson W. 1925 (published by the congregation)
- The Synagogues of London. Lindsay, P., 1993 (Valentine Mitchell, London) pp. 45-47
- The Lost Synagogues of London. Renton, P., 2000 (Tymsder Publishing) pp. 39-43
- other City sources
- Tower Hamlet sources
- other London sources
Cemetery Information:
- Burial Registers
- Hackney Cemetery (exclusively for members of Hambro' Synagogue)
- Hoxton Cemetery (exclusively for members of Hambro' Synagogue )
- United Synagogue Cemeteries general

City of London Congregations

East End Congregations

Explanations of Terms Used

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