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Page created: 2 March 2004
Latest
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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. |
Sheffield Jewish Community home page
Jewish Congregations in
South Yorkshire
Jewish Communities of England home page
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