Tredegar Community & Montefiore Centenary Synagogue

Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, South Wales

Created 23 August 2005
Latest revision or update: 30 December 2011

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 Valleys of South Wales, is located at the north end of the 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

Jewish Population Data

1896
1919
1946

102
175
39

(The Jewish Year Books 1896/7)
(The Jewish Year Book 1920)
(The Jewish Year Book 1947)

On-Line Article

Tredegar Anti-Jewish Riots of 1911
How 'Greeners' Came to the Valley' by Michael Wallach, Jewish Chronicle Colour Magazine, 1975 (posted on JCR-UK).

Other Information

Bibliography and other Sources

Blaenau Gwent (Welsh Valleys - East) Communities

Jewish Communities & Congregations in Wales

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