Congregation Data |
Name: |
Scarborough Street Synagogue
(from about 1873(i))
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Former Name |
Mansell Street Synagogue
(For predecessor congregation, see under "Formation" below) |
Address: |
Scarborough Street (previously Little
Scarborough Street), Goodman's Fields, London E1.(ii) |
Former Address: |
Mansell Street, London E1(iii), from at least 1870.
Prior to then, see under "Formation" below. |
Formation: |
The Congregation was the successor to the
Gun Yard Synagogue
(which had been one of the one of three minor congregations established
in London in the eighteenth century), when the Congregation relocated
from Gun Yard (in the City of London), sometime before 1870. |
Current Status: |
Closed, 1920's(iv) |
Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox |
Affiliation: |
One of the 16 congregations that attended the meeting on
16 October 1887 to form the
Federation of Synagogues(v), and became one of
the original 21 or 22 federated synagogues on 6 November 1887(vi). |
Membership Data: |
1870 - 130 members
(Social History of the Jews of England by V.D. Lipman, p.74) 1896 -
52 members
(Jewish Year Book 1896-97) 1905 -
83 members (Jewish Year Book 1906)
1915 - 96 members (Jewish Year Book 1916) |
Local Government
Districts: |
Scarborough Street and the central and southern sections of Mansell
Street are in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets(vii) (the northern
section of Mansell Street is in the City
of London). They were previously (from 1900 to 1965) in the Metropolitan Borough of
Stepney and prior thereto (from 1856 to 1900) they were within the Whitechapel District
in the former county of Middlesex.
Tower Hamlet
Bibliography |
Registration District (BMD): |
Tower Hamlets(viii) -
Link
to Register Office website |
Cemetery
Information: |
See
Cemeteries of the
Federation of Synagogues.
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Notes &
Sources (↵
returns to text above)
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