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Congregation Data |
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Name: |
Walford Road Synagogue
Hebrew name: Shaare Mazal Tov (Gates of Good
Luck) |
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Former Name: |
New Dalston Synagogue,
until 1921(iii)
(Not to be confused with the New Dalston Synagogue
(1896-1901), which was the predecessor congregation to the
Stoke Newington
Synagogue) |
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Address: |
99 Walford Road
(corner Nevill Road), Stoke Newington, London N16 8EF, from 1921.(iv)
The synagogue building, formerly a Wesleyan Chapel,
was built in 1865 and extensively rebuilt in 1932.(v)
It was consecrated on Sunday, 25 September 1921,
in a ceremony performed by Rabbi H. Block, assisted by the Rev. I.
Shapiro.(vi) |
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Previous Address: |
99 Belgrade Road, London N16 (previously known as Wiesbaden Road)(vii) |
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Date Founded: |
1912(viii)
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Status: |
Active |
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Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox |
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Affiliation: |
Independent, although from late 1930s to early
1950s, the
congregation appears to have had some affiliation with the
Union of Orthodox Hebrew
Congregations (UOHC) or its burial fund.(ix) |
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Website: |
https://walfordroadsynagogue.org/ |
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Ministers and Readers:
(To view a short profile of a minister
or reader
whose name appears in blue - hold the cursor over his name.) |
Rev. S. Khan
- from at least 1918 until about 1921(xiii)
Rev. Morris Lubner
- from about 1925 until about 1930(xiv)
Rev. Abraham Samet
- from about 1930 until about 1931(xv)
Rev. Avraham Rosenfeld
- from about 1934 until about 1941(xvi)
Rabbi L. (Eliezer) Spector
- from about 1950 until about 1976(xvii)
Rabbi Emmanuel Morris
- from 1976 until 1986(xviii)
Rabbi Herschel Gluck
- from 1986 until about 2007(xix)
Rabbi Abraham Citron
- from 2007 until present (December 2020)(xx)
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Initial Trustees: |
The following are the trustees to whom the
premises at 99 Walford Road was transferred on behalf of the
congregation in 1920 (leasehold) and 1922 (freehold):(xxiv)
Solomon Polinsky, James Rothenberg,
Hyman Feather, Benjamin Tobin, Joseph Herzberg and
Phillip Polinsky
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Lay Officers
(from 1918): |
The following has been taken from information
appearing in
Jewish Year Books.
However, such information is somewhat patchy and accordingly dates here
are only approximate.(xxv) |
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Presidents
1918-1947, 1950-1951 - L. Sherwin
1948-1950, 1951-1955 - M. Shachar
1955-1956 - L. Amdur
Treasurers
1918-1922 - N. Steinberg
1922-1924 - L. Kingsley
1924-1940 - L. Kingsley and P. Phillips
1940-1945 - war years (no data)
1950-1956 - P. Phillips
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Vice Presidents
1918-1927 - H. Zeffert
1927-1940 - H. Fairston
Hon. Secretaries
1918-1921 - Rev. S. Khan
1921-1948 - M. Sklar
1950-1955 - L. Black
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Membership Data: |
National Reports & Survey(xxvi)
1983 - 182 male (or household) members and 151 female members
1990 - 300 members (households)
1996 - 239 members (comprising 59 households, 55 individual male and 125 individual female members)
2010 - listed as having 100 to 199 members (by household)
2016 - listed as having 50 to 99 members (by household)
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Charitable Status: |
The congregation is a registered charity (no. 1101200), registered
on 16 December 2003. The governing document is the Declaration of Trust
of 6 March 1963.(xxvii) |
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Local Government District: |
Walford Road and Belgrade Road are both now in the
London Borough of Hackney(xxviii)
and were previously (until 1965) in the former Metropolitan Borough of
Stoke Newington. |
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Registration District (BMD): |
Hackney(xxix)
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Link to Register Office website |
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Cemetery Information: |
The congregation uses the cemetery of the Western
Charitable Foundation in Edmonton(xxx) |
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