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East London Synagogue

Stepney Green, London E.1.
 

              

         
 


Created: 30 August 2006
Latest revision or update: 12 December 2011

Congregation Data

Official Name: East London Synagogue
Address: 52 Rectory Square, Stepney Green, London E1 3NG
Local Authority: London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Date Formed: 1877 - It was the first synagogue to be erected under the auspices of the United Synagogue. (Foundation stone laid in 1873)
Current Status: Building sold in 1987 (building converted to apartments). Congregates initially moved into an adjoining community centre. In 1993, remaining congregants merged with Hackney Synagogue, which changed its name to Hackney & East London Synagogue
Ritual: Ashkenazi Orthodox
Affiliation: A constituent synagogue of the United Synagogue from 1877 until its closure. 
(List of United Synagogue congregations)
Membership Data: Number of male seat holders (United Synagogue 1870-1970)
1877 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970
221 227 272 345 340 397 383 359 411 467 376
Lists of Seatholders: For the years: 1885 , 1899 , 1910

Other Information

  • Bibliography:

    • The Lost Synagogues of London. Renton, P., 2000 (Tymsder Publications, London) 
      pp. 90-94

    • The Synagogues of London. Lindsay, P., 1993 (Valentine Mitchell, London)  p. 53-55

    • The Curious Case of Hyman Samuel - in Issue No.9  (pages 44-48) of The Cable -
      the magazine of the Jewish East End Celebration Society [2009].

    • other Tower Hamlet sources

    • other London sources
       

  • Cemetery Information:

Street Directory of Synagogues in East End and City of London

East End Congregations

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