The Cutler Street "Polish" Synagogue

City of London, London E.1.

Created: 29 August 2006
Latest revision or update: 12 December 2011

Congregation Data

Name:	Cutler Street "Polish" Synagogue
Alternative Name:	Carter Street Synagogue (although this may have been a typographical error in Geoffrey Alderman's "The Federation of Synagogues 1887-1987")
Address:	Clothier Street, Cutler Street, (off Hounsditch), London E.1.
Date Formed:	1790 or 1802 (depending on source) - one of the three minor congregations reputedly established in London in the eighteenth century. The others were the Rosemary Lane Congregation and the Gun Yard "Polish" Synagogue.
Current Status:	Closed in late 1930's (based upon latest appearance in Jewish Year Books)
Ritual:	Ashkenazi Orthodox
Affiliation:	Initially a dependency of the Great Synagogue According to Geoffrey Alderman's in his "The Federation of Synagogues 1887-1987"(repeated by Bernard Homa in his "Orthodoxy in Anglo-Jewry), "Carter" Street Synagogue was one of the 16 congregations that attended the meeting of 16 October 1887 to form the Federation of Synagogues. This was probably a typographical error for "Cutler" Street. The Cutler Street Synagogue is listed as one of the 21 or 22 original federated synagogues on 6 November 1887 in V. D. Lipman's "Social History of the Jews in England 1850-1950" (pp120-121). However, it appears to have later become unaffiliated.

Other Information

Bibliography:

Street Directory of Synagogues in East End and City of London

City of London & East End Congregations

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