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Created: 22 October 2006
Latest revision or update: 29 November 2011
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© Leslie Bailey
2008 - Reproduced with kind permission
A photograph of the former South
West London Synagogue, 104 Bolingbroke Road (March 2008)
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Congregation Data
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Official Name: |
South West London Synagogue |
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Former Name: |
Wandsworth & Balham Synagogue (until
about 1927) |
| Address: |
104 Bolingbroke Grove, Wandsworth Common,
Wandworth, London SW11 1DA
(previously, from 1913 until 1915, at 77 Bolingbroke Grove) |
| Formation & Mergers: |
Formed in about 1913 by the merger of the following
congregations: |
Balham & Tooting Hebrew Congregation
of 47 Boundary Road, Balham, SW12
(formed prior to 1911) |
Wandsworth & Battersea Hebrew Congregation
of 563 York Road, Wandsworth, SW11
(formed prior to 1911) |
| Current Status: |
Closed 1997 |
| Local Authority: |
London Borough of Wandsworth
- (Congregations in the
locality) |
| Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox |
| Affiliation: |
An associate synagogue of the United Synagogue from
1927, becoming a district synagogue in 1935, and later a constituent
synagogue. (List of
United Synagogue
congregations) |
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Membership Data: |
Number of male seat holders (United Synagogue
1870-1970)
| 1940 |
1950 |
1960 |
1970 |
| 144 |
233 |
230 |
173 |
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Other Information
- Bibliography:
- Cemetery Information:
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Greater London Community
Explanation of Terms Used
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