Chevrah Torah Synagogue

Name:

Chevrah Torah Synagogue

Alternative Name:

London Chevra Torah Synagogue

Address:

64 Princelet Street (previously known as 32 Booth Street), London E1.

Previously 20 Booth Street, London E1. (until at least 1905)

(Location: The eastern 500 feet of Princelet Street (namely, that part east of Brick Lane), which included this synagogue, was previously known as Booth Street, and runs parallel with Heneage Street to the South.

Princelet Street itself (previously known as Princes Street), in London's East End, was originally only some 300 feet long, lying solely to the west of Brick Lane. )

Date Founded:

1890's

Current Status:

Closed, after 1956

Ritual:

Orthodox - Ashkenazi

Affiliation:

An affiliated synagogue of the Federation of Synagogues. 
Also in 1940's was also associated with the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations.

Membership Data:

1905 - 180 members (source)

Source: Jewish Year Book 1906

1915 - 150 members (source)

Source: Jewish Year Book 1916

Local Government Districts:

The locality is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, created on 1 April 1965, within the administrative area of Greater London.

Previously, Princelet Street / Booth Street were in the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney (established 1900) in the County of London (established 1889), both of which entities were abolished in 1965.

Although most of Booth Street was within the civil parish of Spitalfields, the most easterly 50 feet, which probably number 32, was in the civil parish of Mile End New Town. Both of these civil parishes were abolished in 1921, being absorbed into the civil parish of Whitechapel, which itself was abolished in 1927 to be absorbed into Stepney Borough parish (until that parish's abolition in 1965).

Registration Districts:

From 1 July 1837 - Whitechapel
From 1 January 1926 - Stepney
Since 1 January 1983 - Tower Hamlets (which now holds the registers)