Princelet Street Synagogue

Spitalfields, London E.1.

Created 6 December 2006
Last Updated 9 November 2008

© Leslie Bailey 2007

Front view of the former Princelet Street Synagogue, taken October 2007
Reproduced with the kind permission of Leslie Bailey

Congregation Data

Name:	Princelet Street Synagogue
Address:	19 Princelet Street (originally Princes Street), Spitalfields, London E1
Successor to:	United Friends Synagogue of Fashion Street, Stepney, London E.1
Local Authority:	London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Date Founded:	1862 (other sources give 1870)
Current Status:	Closed 1983 (now the Museum of Immigration)
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:	1870 - 120 members (Social History of Jews in England, V. D. Lipman, p74) 1896 - 80 members (Jewish Year Book 1896-1891) 1905 - 105 members (Jewish Year Book 1906) 1915 - 100 members (Jewish Year Book 1916)

Other Information

Congregation History & Records
Newspaper Articles, Photographs & Personal Encounters
Bibliography:
- "The Lost Synagogues of London" - Renton, P., 2000 (Tymsder Publishing) pp. 172-173
- "Princelet Street Synagogue - did you know that ...?" - Issue No. 6 (2008) of the Cable - the magazine of the Jewish East End Celebration Society, pp 47-48.
- other Tower Hamlet sources
- other London sources
Cemetery Information:
Cemeteries of the Federation of Synagogues

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