|
Official Name: |
Scarborough Street Synagogue |
|
Former Name: |
The Gun Yard "Polish" Synagogue or Gun Square
"Polish" Synagogue |
| Address: |
Scarborough Street, Goodman's Fields, London E1
Previously in Mansell Street, London E1 (from at least 1870)
And prior thereto, in Gun Yard (or Gun Square), off Hounsditch, London E.C.3.
(not to be confused with Gun Street in Spitalfields, to the North) |
| Date Formed: |
1792 - one of the three minor congregations established
in London in the eighteenth century. The others were the
Rosemary Lane Congregation and
the
Cutler Street "Polish" Synagogue. |
| Current Status: |
Closed, 1920's (based upon latest appearance in Jewish
Year Books) |
| Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox |
| Affiliation: |
Initially, may have been a dependency of the
New Synagogue.
Was 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 - 130 members (Social History of
the Jews in England by V. D. Lipman, p.74)
1896 - 52 members (Jewish Year Book 1896-1897)
1905 - 83 members (Jewish Year Book 1906)
1915 - 96 members (Jewish Year Book 1916) |
- Bibliography:
- Cemetery Information:
|
Street Directory of Synagogues in East End
and City of London
City of London Congregations
East End Congregation
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