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The New Synagogue

City of London, London E.C.3.

 

              

         
 
 

Created: 18 August 2006
Latest revision or update: 12 December 2011

Congregation Data

Official Name: The Beth Hamedrash
Functions:

The Beth Hamedrash is a "house of learning." 
After an earlier abortive attempt in 1704, the three City Ashkenazi Synagogues (the Great, the Hambro'
and the New) established a Beth Hamedrash some time prior to 1782 in a house in Brookers Garden,
for use by members of all three congregations.
The functions of this Beth Hamedrash was (1) a synagogue; (2) a court of Jewish religious law; (3) a library; and (4) a place of study.

Address:

Brookers Garden (later known as Sussex Place), near Leadenhall Street, London EC3 (from at least 1782 to approximately 1841)
1 Smiths Buildings, Leadenhall Street, London EC3 (approximately 1841 - 1876)
Duke's Place (adjacent to the Great Synagogue), London EC3 (1876-1905
Mulberry Street, Commercial Road, London E1 (adjacent to the new Hambro' Synagogue) (from 1905 to 1940, when damaged in German air raid)
Thereafter, the Beth Hamedrash sat from 1948 at Adler House, Adler Street; from 1996 at Woburn House and when it closed, at Adler House, North Finchley.

Date Formed: At least 1782
Current Status: Still in existence within the head offices of the United Synagogue, but a shadow of its former self - the library was auctioned off.
Ritual: Ashkenazi Orthodox
Affiliation: Taken over by the United Synagogue in 1875.

Other Information

Street Directory of Synagogues in East End and City of London

City of London Congregations

Explanations of Terms Used

 

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