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Created: 17 March 2003
Latest revision or update: 23 December 2011
Gates to the Court Yard of the
Bevis Marks Synagogue
© David Shulman 2007 |
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Courtyard of the Bevis Marks Synagogue
following wedding in
September 2007
© David Shulman 2007 |
Congregation Data
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Official Name: |
Bevis Marks Synagogue |
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Alternative Name: |
Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation |
| Address: |
Bevis Marks, London EC3A 5DQ |
| Local Authority: |
City of London |
| Current Status: |
Active |
| Date Founded: |
1701 (although was successor to Synagogue in
Creechurch
Lane founded in 1657) |
| Ritual: |
Sephardi Orthodox |
| Affiliation: |
A constituent of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation
Note: The other synagogues which comprise to the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation are:
the
Lauderdale Road Synagogue;
the
Wembley Sephardi Synagogue; and
the
Montefiore Synagogue,
Ramsgate.
(In addition, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue,
Holland Park, was established under a Deed of Association with the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation.)
The former Sephardi Synagogue in
Bryanston Road, formerly in Wigmore Street, W1, was a branch
congregation of Bevis Marks.
(List of
Sephardi
congregations) |
| Listed Buildings: |
The synagogue building (built 1699-99 - architect
Joseph Avis) is a Grade 1 Listed Building.
The Congregation's
Mile End Velho Cemetery
(no longer in use) at 253 Mile End Road, London E1
(opened 1657.) is Listed Grade II. |
| Website: |
http://www.sandp.org |
Other Information
- Records:
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Congregation History
- Photographs, Newspaper Articles & Personal Encounters
- Bibliography:
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First London Synagogue of the Resettlement. Samuel, W.S. &
Castello, M.N., J. Transactions - Jewish Historical Society of England X 1921/3
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Bevis Marks in History. Goodman, P 1934 Oxford
University Press
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Bevis Marks Records I, II & III. Barnett, R.D. and
Whitehill, G.H. 1940 London
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The Laws and Charities of the Spanish & Portuguese
Jews Congregation of London. Laski, N. 1952 Cresset Press.
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Correspondence of the Mahammad of the Spanish &
Portuguese Jews Congregation of London during the 17th and 18th Centuries.
Barnett, R.D.J.
Transactions - Jewish Historical Society of England XX 1959/61
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Problems of the London Sephardi Community 1720-33. Diamond, A.S.
Transactions - Jewish Historical Society of England
XXI 1962/67
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The Sephardim of
England. Hyamson, A.M. 1951 (Methuen & Co., London)
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The Bevis Marks Synagogue. Barnett, R.D. and Levy, A 1975 (Society of
Hashaim, London)
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The Oldest Synagogue, Hyamson A.M.
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The Synagogues of Europe. Krinsky, C. H. 1985 (The M.I.T.
Press, Cambridge MA). pp. 412-415
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The Synagogues of London. Lindsay, P., 1993 (Valentine
Mitchell, London) pp. 38-41
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The Burial Grounds of the Resettlement. Kadish,
Sharman. 2006. Issue No. 1 of the Cable - the magazine of the Jewish
East End Celebration Society, pp 12-14.
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other City
sources
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other London
sources
- Cemetery Information:
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Street Directory of Synagogues in East End
and City of London
City of London Congregations
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