Chabad Lubavitch of South London

Name:

Chabad Lubavitch of South London
including its principal component Chabad Wimbledon

Address:

Chabad House, 42 St Georges Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 4ED (since 1989).

The Synagogue is in the adjacent building - 1st Floor, Drake House.

Date Formed:

Formed in 1988 as Chabad Wimbledon

Status:

Active

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox - Lubavitch

Affiliation:

An autonomous constituent of the Chabad Lubavitch UK Network, and part of the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch Movement.

Website:

https://www.chabadwimbledon.com

Rabbinic Staff:
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Rabbi Nissim Dovid Dubov and Mrs. Sarah Dubov - Directors and Rabbinic Couple from 1988 to present (May 2026)^(iv)

Rabbi Yossi Moscowitz - Programme and Youth Director from 2018 until 2025.^(v)

Branch Chabad Centres:

● Chabad of Battersea

● Chabad of Greenwich and the Docklands

● Chabad of Greater Surrey

● Chabad of South East London, Chabad House, 52 Broadfield Road, Catford, London, SE6 1NE (in the London Borough of Lewisham. Active from about 2019 until about 2023. (No longer believed to be active.)^(vii)

Legal and Charitable Status:

Chabad Lubavitch of South London was incorporated on 23 May 2013 (company no. 08542368), as a registered (non-profit) private company limited by guarantee without a share capital.^(viii)

Under the same name (and with a working name of Chabad Wimbledon), it is also a registered charity (registered charity no. 08542368), registered on 8 November 2013.^(ix)

Local Government District:

Wimbledon is a neighbourhood in South London. Most of Wimbledon, including the Chabad Centre, is in the London Borough of Merton, an outer London Borough created on 1 April 1965, within the administrative area of Greater London.

Prior to 1965, Wimbledon was in the former Municipal Borough of Wimbledon (which was an urban district until 1905) in the county of Surrey.^(x)

Registration District (BMD):

Merton from 1 April 1965^(xi) - Link to Register Office website