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Mile End New Town Synagogue

London E.1.

Created 12 December 2006
Latest revision 11 August 2007

Congregation Data

Name: Mile End New Town Synagogue
Former Name: Great Mile End New Town Synagogue;
Dunk Street Chevra
Address: 39 Dunk Street, Whitechapel, London E1
Local Authority: London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Date Founded: 1880
Incorporated Congregation: Glory of Israel and Sons of Klatsk Synagogue (incorporated between 1930 and 1934)
of 50½ Hanbury Street, London E1, from late 1920's. (Previously, the Poltava Synagogue was at this address)
(Note: There appears to have been another congregation known as the Glory of Israel Chevra, which amalgamated with the Gun Street Synagogue in 1907, according to a report of 4 January 1907 in the Jewish Chronicle)
Current Status: Closed, after 1956
Ritual: Orthodox - Ashkenazi
Affiliation: 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: 1896  -  63  members  (Jewish Year Book 1896-1897)
1905  -  59  members  (Jewish Year Book 1906)
1915  -  57 members  (Jewish Year Book 1916)

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East End Congregations

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