New Synagogue & Beth Hamedrash

Congregation Data

Name:

New Synagogue & Beth Hamedrash

Addresses:

The Congregation, at one time, had two synagogue buildings:
122 Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester M8⁽ⁱ⁾ (from 1889 until 1964) and
5 Greenhill Road, Manchester M8 (from about 1948 until mid/late 1950's)

(The congregation was considered part of the "North Manchester" Jewish community.)

Branch Synagogue:

Date Formed:

Founded in 1889 by William Aronsberg

Current Status:

Merged in 27 December 1964 with the Great Synagogue, Manchester to form the Manchester Great and New Synagogue, which in 2008 became the Manchester Great New and Central Synagogue.

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Membership:

1896 - 223 seatholders (Jewish Year Book 1896/97)

1905 - 200 seatholders (Jewish Year Book 1906)

1915 - 200 seatholders (Jewish Year Book 1916)

Local Authority:

The congregation was in the centre of Manchester, which is now part of the metropolitan borough of the City of Manchester (now within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, which no longer has any administrative powers).
From 1889 to 1974, Manchester was a county borough (a unitary authority), geographically (though not administratively) within the County of Lancashire.