Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue

Fieldgate Street, London E.1.

Re-created 18 May 2008
(original page, created 2003, having been deleted)
Last Updated 9 September 2008

© Leslie Bailey 2007

Entrance to the Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue (August 2007)
Reproduced with the kind permission of Leslie Bailey

Congregation Data

Name:	Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue
Previous Name:	Fieldgate Street Synagogue
Address:	41 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1JU
Congregations Incorporated:	Lubner and Lomzer Synagogue (after 1947) Vine Court Synagogue (1965) Alie Street Synagogue (1969) Ezras Chaim, Ain Yacov and Poltava Synagogue (1973) Stepney Orthodox Synagogue (after 1966)
Local Authority:	London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Current Status:	Synagogue extant but no longer active. Last service held 22 September 2007
Date Founded:	1899
Ritual:	Orthodox - Ashkenazi
Affiliation:	An affiliated synagogue to the Federation of Synagogues. (A section of members were, and some may still be, affiliated for burial rights to the West End Great Synagogue.)
Membership Data:	1905 - 140 (Jewish Year Book 1906) 1915 - 150 (Jewish Year Book 1916)

Other Information

Synagogue & Other Records
Congregation History
Newspaper Articles, Photographs, and Personal Encounters
Bibliography:
- The Synagogues of London. Lindsay, P., 1993 (Valentine Mitchell, London) p. 51-53
- "Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue synagogues" - Issue No. 2 of the Cable - the magazine of the Jewish East End Celebration Society, pp 33-35.
- "The sound of the shofar has been heard for the last time at Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue synagogues" - Issue No. 5, 2007, of the Cable - the magazine of the Jewish East End Celebration Society, pp 55-56.
- other Tower Hamlet sources
- other London sources
Cemetery Information:
- Cemeteries of the Federation of Synagogues
- Cemeteries of the West End Great Synagogue

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