Sheffield Central Hebrew Congregation

Sheffield, South Yorkshire

Created 2 March 2004
Latest revision or update: 29 December 2011

Congregation Data

Official Name:	Sheffield Central Hebrew Congregation (also known as Sheffield Central Synagogue)
Former Names:	Sheffield New Hebrew Congregation (also known as the Chevra)
Last Address:	93 Brunswick Street, Sheffield. (premises of the Sheffield Jewish Education Board) from about 1941.
Previous Addresses:	Lee Croft (corner Campo Lane), Sheffield (acquired 19 June 1904, but not completed and consecrated until 1914) - destroyed by German enemy action on 12 December 1940. Previously at Hallamshire Hall, 93-99 West Bar, Sheffield, from at least 1891 (report in the Jewish Chronicle). Prior thereto at 47 West Bar Green, Sheffield (over a pork butcher's shop/between two pork butchers' shops). Initially in Solley Street, Sheffield.
Date Formed:	c. 1860 as a Benevolent Society (the result of a breakaway from the Figtree Lane Synagogue).
Current Status:	Merged with the Sheffield Hebrew Congregation, with effect from 1 April 1953, to form the Sheffield Jewish Congregation and Centre. (The agreement to merge was ratified by Sheffield Central Hebrew Congregation on 3 March 1953 and by Sheffield Hebrew Congregation on 10 March 1953.)
Ritual:	Ashkenazi Orthodox
Congregation Numbers:	1998 - 80 seatholders (The Jewish Year Book 1898/99) 1900 - 100 seatholders (The Jewish Year Book 1900/01) (In 1891, the Jewish Chronicle reported that the "members nearly all belonged to the class of poor foreign Jews.)

Other Information

Cemetery Data -
The congregation acquired the Walkley Cemetery in 1880

Sheffield Community

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