Sheffield Central Hebrew Congregation

Congregation Data

Official Name:

Sheffield Central Hebrew Congregation
(also known as Sheffield Central Synagogue)

Former Names:

Sheffield New Hebrew Congregation (also known as the "Chevra")

Last Address:

93 Brunswick Street, Sheffield. (premises of the Sheffield Jewish Education Board) from about 1941.

Previous Addresses:

Lee Croft (corner Campo Lane), Sheffield (acquired 19 June 1904, but not completed and consecrated until 1914) - destroyed by German enemy action on 12 December 1940.

Previously at Hallamshire Hall, 93-99 West Bar, Sheffield, from at least 1891 (report in the Jewish Chronicle).

Prior thereto at 47 West Bar Green, Sheffield (over a pork butcher's shop/between two pork butchers' shops).
Initially in Solley Street, Sheffield.

Date Formed:

c. 1860 as a Benevolent Society ("Chevra") (the result of a breakaway from the Sheffield Hebrew Congregation (Figtree Lane). During the 1870's there was an at least one additional such society.

Closure:

Merged with the Sheffield Hebrew Congregation to form the United Sheffield Hebrew Congregation, subsequently known as the Sheffield Jewish Congregation and Centre and now the United Synagogue - Sheffield.

(The agreement to merge was ratified by Sheffield Central Hebrew Congregation on 3 March 1953 and by Sheffield Hebrew Congregation on 10 March 1953.)

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Congregation Numbers:

1998 -   80 seatholders (The Jewish Year Book 1898/99)
1900 - 100 seatholders (The Jewish Year Book 1900/01)
(In 1891, the Jewish Chronicle reported that the "members nearly all belonged to the class of poor foreign Jews.)

Cemetery Information:

In 1880, the congregation's offshoot, the Sheffield Hebrew Benevolent Society, acquired the Walkley Jewish Cemetery.

For details. see Cemetery Information on Sheffield Jewish Community home page.