Princelet Street Synagogue

Spitalfields, London E.1.

Created: 6 December 2006
Latest revision or update: 12 December 2011

Front view of the former Princelet Street Synagogue, taken October 2007
© Leslie Bailey 2007 and reproduced with kind permission

Congregation Data

Name:	Princelet Street Synagogue (until 1916 Princes Street Synagogue)
Address:	19 Princelet Street (building originally known as 18 or 19 Princes Street), Spitalfields, London E1 (It was previously a Huguenot master silk weaver's home.)
Successor to:	United Friends Synagogue of Fashion Street, Stepney, London E.1
Local Authority:	London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Date Founded:	1862 (other sources give 1870)
Current Status:	Closed 1983 (It is now a Museum of Immigration, although in a very bad state of repair. There are still many signs of the old Jewish presence, although it is only infrequently opened to visitors.)
Ritual:	Orthodox - Ashkenazi
Affiliation:	One of the congregations that attended the meeting of 16 October 1887 to form the Federation of Synagogues, and became one of the original federated synagogues on 6 November 1887. (List of Federation congregations)
Membership Data:	1870 - 120 members (Social History of Jews in England, V. D. Lipman, p74) 1896 - 80 members (Jewish Year Book 1896-1891) 1905 - 105 members (Jewish Year Book 1906) 1915 - 100 members (Jewish Year Book 1916)

Other Information

Bibliography:
- The Lost Synagogues of London - Renton, P., 2000 (Tymsder Publishing) pp. 172-173
- Princelet Street Synagogue - did you know that ...? - Issue No. 6 (2008) of the Cable - the magazine of the Jewish East End Celebration Society, pp 47-48.
- Princelet Street Synagogue"- Rosemary Wenzerul - March 2009 issue of Shemot - the journal of JGSGB pp 26-27
- Rodinsky's Room - Rachel Lichtenstein
- Tower Hamlet sources
- other London sources
Cemetery Information:
- Cemeteries of the Federation of Synagogues

Street Directory of Synagogues in East End and City of London

East End Congregations

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