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Page created: 16 December 2006
Latest revision or update: 14 April 2015

© David Shulman 2007
A photograph of Hendon Synagogue, Raleigh Close, September
2007
Congregation Data
Current Name: |
Hendon Synagogue |
Former Name: |
Hendon Hebrew Congregation |
Address: |
18 Raleigh Close, Wykeham Road, Hendon, London NW4 2TA
The Synagogue cost £20,000 to erect and was consecrated on 15th
September 1935 by Dayan Dr. Asher Feldman. The land (which was previously a derelict site known as ‘the
Gravel Pit’)
is held on a lease from the trustees of All Souls College, Oxford for a
term of 99 years at the annual rental of £100. |
Former Address: |
Previously the synagogue was at 128 Brent
Street, Hendon, London NW4 (just northwest of the junction with the
North Circular Road) from 1928 to 1935.
The plot, which included six cottages) was purchased for £2,150 and a
temporary building was constructed at a cost
of £1,000 (known by its congregants as "The Hut"). It was the first purpose built Synagogue in Hendon and
could seat about 360 congregants. It was consecrated by Chief Rabbi Dr.
J. H. Hertz on 30 June 1929. The building was
sold in 1940 to Hendon Adath
Synagogue for £2,700 (excluding the cottages) and the cottages were
sold in 1942 for £600. |
Current Status: |
Active |
Date Formed: |
1928 |
Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox |
Affiliation: |
Initially independent, although there was an
arrangement with the
United Synagogue
from 1929 regarding burial facilities. The Congregation formally joined
the United Synagogue in 1935 as a district synagogue, becoming a full
member (constituent) synagogue in the same year. |
Website: |
http://www.hendonsynagogue.com |
Membership Data: |
1928 - 70 members
(source) |
Source: Congregation's website |
1930 - 125
members
(source) |
Source:
Congregation's website |
1940 - 561 male seatholders
(source) |
Source: The United Synagogue 1870-1970 by Aubrey Newman
(1977), pages 216/17 |
1950 - 1,015 male seatholders
(source) |
Source: The United Synagogue 1870-1970 by Aubrey Newman
(1977), pages 216/17 |
1960 - 1,270 male seatholders
(source) |
Source: The United Synagogue 1870-1970 by Aubrey Newman
(1977), pages 216/17 |
1970 - 1,357 male seatholders
(source) |
Source: The United Synagogue 1870-1970 by Aubrey Newman
(1977), pages 216/17 |
1980 - over 2,000
members
(source) |
Source:
Congregation's website |
For detailed figures for membership until
1977 (in particular for 1942 and from 1949 to 1977), see
Appendix II
to Geoffrey Alderman's History of the Hendon Synagogue 1928-1978.
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Ministers: |
Rev. B. Wykansky - 1928? to 1929
Rev. Joseph Herman - 1929 to 1936
Rev. H. I. Alexander - 1937 to 1943 (Rev. H. I. Alexander
- temporary minister 1941 to 1943) (Rev. M.
Landy - temporary minister 1943 to 1945)
Rev. Leslie Henry Hardman - 1946 to 1980 Rabbi
Sidney Silberg - 1980 to 1996
Rabbi Mordechai Ginsbury - 1999
to Present (March 2015) |
Notable Cantors (Readers): |
Rev. David Koussevitsky - 1937 to 1949
Rev. S. B. Taub - 1950 to 1958
Rev. Moshe Korn - 1960 to 1981 Rev. (later
Rabbi) Shmuel Neuman - 1981 to ? |
Honorary Officers: |
For a list of all Honorary Officers of the
Congregation from 1926 until 1978, see
Appendix I
to Geoffrey Alderman's History of the Hendon Synagogue 1928-1978. |
Local Authority
Districts: |
Hendon, a residential suburb in Northwest London with a
large Jewish population, is in the London Borough of Barnet,
created on 1 April 1965, within the administrative area of Greater London.
Previously,
Hendon was in the Municipal Borough of Hendon (which was
an urban district until 1932) in the County of Middlesex, both of which entities were abolished in 1965. |
Registration Districts: |
From 1 July 1837 - Hendon
From 1 April 1999 - Barnet (which would now hold any registers) |
Congregational Documents
JCR-UK is extremely grateful to Mrs. Lyn Fisher (formerly Ofstein),
a former member of the Hendon Synagogue,
for providing JCR-UK with copies of the above documents. |
Other Congregation Information
Jewish Congregations in the
London Borough of Barnet
Jewish Congregations in Greater London
Greater London home page
List of
United Synagogue
Congregations
Explanation of Terms Used
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