Stepney Orthodox Synagogue

Official Name:

Stepney Orthodox Synagogue

Address:

53 Stepney Green, London E1 from 1914

(a former Primitive Methodist Chapel and currently a sports hall and young people's training centre).
It was destroyed in a German Air Raid during WWII, after which the congregation used 61 Redman's Road, London E1 until the synagogue was rebuilt.

Previously at Paragon Mansions, Stepney Green.

Local Authority:

London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Date Founded:

Founded in 1896, as a breakaway from the East London Synagogue (by a group who objected to the latter's mixed choir)

Current Status:

Closed, 1980. Amalgamated with Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue

Ritual:

Orthodox - Ashkenazi

Affiliation:

An affiliated synagogue of the Federation of Synagogues. (List of Federation congregations)

Membership Data:

1905  -   38 members  (Jewish Year Book 1906)
1915  - 105 members  (Jewish Year Book 1916)