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Tredegar Community & Montefiore Centenary SynagogueTredegar, Blaenau Gwent, South Wales |
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Tredegar Community & Montefiore Centenary SynagogueTredegar, Blaenau Gwent, South Wales |
Congregation Data
| Name: | Montefiore Centenary Synagogue, Tredegar |
| Address: | Morgan Street, Tredegar. (In 1870's the synagogue was temporarily situated in Queen Street) |
| Date Founded: | 1870 (Synagogue reorganised and opened 1884) |
| Current Status: | Closed (after 1947) and became a private home. |
| Ritual: | Ashkenazi Orthodox |
| Membership Data: | 1895 - 20 seatholders (The Jewish Year Books 1896/7) |
| Town Location: | Tredegar, a town in the Welsh Valleys of South Wales, is located at the north end of the is river Sirhowy valley, about 1,000 feet above sea level. |
| Local Government: | From 1996 - the county borough of Blaenau Gwent - a
unitary authority 1974 to 1996 - the district of Blaenau Gwent in the county of Gwent Until 1974 - the urban district of Tredegar in the county of Monmouthshire |
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1896 - 102 (The Jewish Year Books 1896/7) 1919 - 175 (The Jewish Year Book 1920) 1946 - 39 (The Jewish Year Book 1947) |
On-Line Article
How 'Greeners' Came to the Valley' by Michael Wallach, Jewish Chronicle Colour Magazine, 1975 (posted on JCR-UK).
Other Information
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