Machzike Hadath Synagogue

Machzike Hadath Synagogue (or Machzike Adass Synagogue)
[Translation - "Upholders of Faith"]

Spitalfields Great Synagogue (1898 to 1983)

Machzike Shomrei Shabbat Synagogue (prior to 1893)

• 3 (previously 1-4) Highfield Road, Golders Green, London NW11 9LU (from 1983)

• Services held at the home of Rabbi Simcha Lopian in Golders Green, London NW11.  (from about 1956 to 1983)

• Prior to then,  the Spitalfields Great Synagogue at 59 Brick Lane, Spitalfields, London E.1.  (1898 to about 1956.) 
  This building, constructed in 1742-3, began life as the Neuve Eglise, a Huguenot Church.  It was used as a missionary centre in the early 1880's before becoming the main Wesleyan Methodist Chapel of East London, until its purchase by Machzike Hadath.  Following its sale, in 1975 it became London Jamme Mashid, then the largest mosque in the East End, used primarily by the Bangladeshi community.

• Prior to then, in Booth Street, London E.1.  (until 1898)

Machzike Hadath was formed as a society by individual members of  the North London Beth Hamedrash and the Machzike Shomrei Shabbat Synagogue (of Booth Street) .  In February 1893, the Machzike Shomrei Shabbat Synagogue formally joined the society and adopted the name the Machzike Hadath Synagogue.

Active (in Golders Green)

Now (Golders Green) in the London Borough of Barnet. (Congregations in the London Borough of Barnet).
Prior to 1983 in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
(Congregations the London Borough of Tower Hamlets - East End)

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Became affiliated to the Federation of Synagogues in 1905

1905 - 215 members (Jewish Year Book 1906)
1915 - 325 members (Jewish Year Book 1916)