Durham Synagogue

Durham, County Durham

Updated 24 October 2006

City of Durham

The historic city of Durham, with a population within its current boundaries of about 85,000, is the county town and a district of County Durham, in the North East of England. Until 1974, the somewhat smaller city of Durham was a municipal borough in County Durham. It is located on a bend in the river Wear.

Only one Jewish congregation, the Durham Synagogue, is known to have existed in Durham .

A photograph of the former Durham Synagogue in Laburnham Street, now a Presbyterian chapel,
taken in June 2006 by Jill Whitehead.

Congregation Data

Official Name:	Durham Synagogue
Address:	Laburnum Avenue, Durham (from about 1910)
Former Address:	11, John Street, Durham
Date Formed:	1906
Current Status:	Closed 1955
Ritual:	Ashkenazi Orthodox

Jewish Population Data

1888
1905
1909
1919

First Jewish settlement in Durham
- 72 (The Jewish Year Book 1906)
- 107 (The Jewish Year Book 1910)
- 86 (The Jewish Year Book 1920)

Other Durham Information

Synagogue & Other Records
Congregation and Community History
Photographs, Newspaper Articles & Personal Encounters
Jewish Property and Heritage & Places of Local Interest
Local Research Libraries, Bibliography and other sources
Cemetery Information: There was no Jewish cemetery. Burials took place in Sunderland or Newcastle.

Explanations of Terms Used

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