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Created 30 August 2006
Latest revision or update: 12 December 2011
Views of the exterior and interior of the Sandys Row Synagogue
© David Shulman 2007
Congregation Data
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Name: |
Sandys Row Synagogue (sometimes spelled
Sandy's Row Synagogue) |
| Former Name |
Sandys Row Associate Synagogue
Parliament Square Congregation (also known as the Dutch
Congregation), which developed from
Hebrath Menahem Abelim Hesed Ve'Emeth (Society of Kindness and
Truth). |
| Address: |
Sandys Row (or Sandy's Row), Middlesex Street, Bishopsgate, London E1
7HW.
This was a converted French Chapel, acquired in 1870. The entrance
was originally in Artillery Lane, Bishopsgate, and was moved to the
Sandys Row side of the building in 1870, at the time of the
consecration of the synagogue. The consecration ceremony was performed
by the Haham (the head rabbi of the London's Spanish & Portuguese Jews
Congregation), as the Chief Rabbi was unwilling to do so (as he was
opposed to the establishment of small independent congregation close to
the large established City synagogues).
The congregation initially met in a room in White's Row, Spitalfields,
holding festival services in Zetland Hall, Mansell Street. |
| Local Authority: |
London Borough of Tower Hamlets |
| Date Formed: |
Founded by about 50 Dutch Jews in 1853 as a hebra,
which was the first of its kind (although many more were to be founded
in the East End during the latter part of the nineteenth century).
A hebra was initially more in the nature of a friendly and benefit
society with a small synagogue attached.
The founding members agreed to provide the following:
(i) a benefit of ten shillings during Shiva (the seven day
confined mourning period);
(ii) a minyan (the requisite prayer quorum of ten adult Jewish men)
during the Shiva; and
(iii) payment for a Rabbi to speak speak at the morning and evening
shiva prayers and during the Sabbath through the 30 day mourning period
(the Shloshim).
Subsequently, the members decided to utilize the services of the Rabbi
to give discourses (derashot) on Sabbath afternoons and, for this
purpose the members initially met in the small room in White's Row. |
| Current Status: |
Active |
| Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox |
| Affiliation: |
Currently unaffiliated, except for an affiliation to
the
West End Great Synagogue for burial rights.
One of the 16 congregations that attended the meeting of
16 October 1887 to form the Federation of Synagogues, and was the
largest of the 21 or 22 original federated synagogues when the
Federation was formed on 6 November 1887. (List of
Federation
congregations). It left the Federation in 1899.
It was then associated with the United Synagogue for burial rights, and
formally became an Associate Synagogue of United Synagogues in 1922, but
seceded in 1949.
(List of
United Synagogue
congregations) |
| Website: |
http://www.sandysrow.org.uk |
| Membership Data: |
1896 - 318 members (Jewish Year Book, 1896 - 1897)
1905 - 340 members (Jewish Year Book, 1906)
1915 - 300 members (Jewish Year Book, 1916) |
Other Information
- Bibliography:
- Cemetery Information:
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Street Directory of Synagogues in East End
and City of London
East End Congregations
Explanation of Terms Used
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