Maiden Lane Synagogue

Covent Garden, London W.C.2.

Created: 7 June 2006
Latest revision or update: 22 September 2009

Congregation Data

Name:	Maiden Lane Synagogue
Address:	21 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London W.C.2., from 1829. (This is the address where the artist J. W. Turner had been born in 1775.)
Developed from:	Amudae Yesharim Congregation (translation: Pillars of the Upright), which had been formed in about 1810 as a breakaway from the Western Synagogue and which closed in 1926. The congregation was initially at Dean Street, Soho, London W.1. moving to Brewer Street (Queen Street), Golden Square, Soho, London W.1. in or before 1819. In 1926, it closed, having became insolvent, and its assets were auctioned off.
Date Founded:	1829
Current Status:	Closed 1907 - congregation re-joined the Western Synagogue
Local Authority:	Currently, the London Borough of the City of Westminster. - (Congregations in the locality)
Ritual:	Orthodox - Ashkenazi
Affiliation:	None

Other Information

Synagogue & Other Records:
- Marriage Records (first entry 16 August 1837; last entry 5 August 1906) held by:
     Westminster Register Office
     Westminster Council House
     Marylebone Road, London NW1 5PT
     Tel: (+44) 20 7941 1161/2/3   Fax: (+44) 20 7641 1246
     email registeroffice@westminster.gov.uk website: www.westminster.gov.uk/registrar
  The Board of Deputies also has the last book and states cessation as "Closed".
- Other Records
Congregation History
Photographs, Newspaper Articles & Personal Encounters
Bibliography:
- The Western Synagogue through Two Centuries (1761-1961) - Chapter 7. Barnett, A., 1961 (Valentine Mitchell, London)
- The Lost Synagogues of London. Renton, P., 2000 (Tymsder Publishing) pp. 51-52
- Maiden Lane Cemetery. Shemot June 2000 vol. 8/2
- Feuding Congregations, Insolvency and a Ragged Patch of Hallowed Group - The story of Maiden Lane Synagogue and the Bancroft Road Cemetery. Walker, Philip, 2007. Issue No. 4 of the Cable - the magazine of the Jewish East End Celebration Society, pp 15-19.
- other City of Westminster Sources
- other London Sources
Cemetery Information:
- Bancroft Road Cemetery, acquired by Amudae Yesharim Congregation in 1811, and subsequently used by the Maiden Road Synagogue.

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