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Created: 21 September 2006
Latest revision or update: 12 December 2011
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© Leslie Bailey
2008
The preserved front of the
former Brixton Synagogue, Effra Road (August 2008)
Now Used by Eurolink Business Centre
Reproduced with the kind permission of
Leslie Bailey
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Congregation Data
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Official Name: |
Brixton Synagogue |
| Address: |
49 Effra Road, Brixton, London S.W.2 (opened 1913,
enlarged and re-consecrated 25 September 1921, damaged by fire in 1956)
From 1905 to 1909, services were held in Carlton Hall, Turnstall Road,
Brixton, and at 44 Brixton Hill from 1909 to 1913 |
| Local Authority: |
London Borough of Lambeth - (Congregations in
the locality) |
| Date Formed: |
1905 |
| Incorporated Congregations: |
Borough Synagogue in
1961 |
| Current Status: |
Closed about 1986 - amalgamated with
Streatham
Synagogue (which had separated from Brixton Synagogue in 1946) |
| Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox |
| Affiliation: |
A constituent synagogue of the United Synagogue from
1913 until its closure. (List of
United Synagogue
congregations) (Until 1913, members belonged to the Western
Synagogue Burial Fund) |
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Membership Data: |
Number of male seat holders (United Synagogue
1870-1970)
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1920 |
1930 |
1940 |
1950 |
1960 |
1970 |
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352 |
356 |
473 |
508 |
614 |
526 |
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Other Information
- Bibliography:
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Fifty Golden Years, A History of the Brixton Synagogue.
Cohen, L.. 1958
(Published by the congregation)
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The Lost Synagogues of London. Renton, P., 2000 (Tymsder
Publications, London)
pp. 134-137
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other Lambeth sources
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other London sources
- Cemetery Information:
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Greater London Congregations
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