Dalston Synagogue

London N.5. (previously N.1.)

Created: 6 September 2006
Latest revision or update: 1 February 2012

Congregation Data

Official Name:

Dalston Synagogue

Address:

Poet's Road, Canonbury, London N.5 (1885-1967)
Mildmay Road, Kingsland, London N.1 (1876-1884)
A room in Colveston House, Birbeck Road, London E.8 (1874-1876)
(Note: none of the above addresses are actually in Dalston)

Local Authority:

London Borough of Islington (close to boundary with London Borough of Hackney). -
(Congregations in the London Borough of Islington) (Congregations in the London Borough of Hackney)

Date Formed:

1874

Incorporated Congregations:

Clephane Road Congregation - 1874
North London Synagogue - 1958

Current Status:

Closed - amalgamated in 1967 with Stoke Newington Synagogue (whose predecessor congregation, the New Dalston Synagogue, had been formed in a secession from the Dalston Synagogue in the 1880's)

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Affiliation:

A constituent synagogue of the United Synagogue from 1885 until its closure.
(List of United Synagogue congregations)

Membership Data:

Number of male seat holders (United Synagogue 1870-1970)

1885	1890	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960
208	269	365	368	340	355	306	402	463

Lists of Seatholders

For the years: 1899 , 1910

Other Information

Bibliography:
- Dalston Synagogue: A Historical Sketch. Wasserzug, D. 1910 (published by the congregation)
- An Historical Sketch of the Dalston Synagogue 1885-1935. Rabbinowitz, J. 1935 (published by the congregation)
- The Lost Synagogues of London. Renton, P., 2000 (Tymsder Publications, London) pp. 95-99
- other Islington sources
- Hackney sources
- other London sources
Cemetery Information:
- Cemeteries of the United Synagogue

Greater London Congregations

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