Settles Street Synagogue

 
The entrance to the former Settles Street Synagogue (September 2007)

     © Leslie Bailey 2007 (reproduced with consent)

Name:

Settles Street Synagogue

Alternative Name:

Settles Street Sphardish Synagogue

Address:

34 Settles Street, London E1

(Location: Settles Street (some 700 feet long), in London's East End, runs north from Commercial Road (about 500 feet west of New Road) to Fieldgate Street (just south of Whitechapel Road), and is parallel to Greenfield Road, to the west.)

Date Founded:

By 1919 (source)

Source: Listed in Jewish Year Book 1920

Current Status:

Closed about 1947 (source)

Source: Listed in Jewish Year Book 1947 but not the 1949 edition

Ritual:

Orthodox - Ashkenazi (Nusach Sphard)

Affiliation:

An affiliated synagogue of the Federation of Synagogues. 

Membership Data:

1919  -  50 members (source)

Source: Jewish Year Book 1920

Local Government Districts:

Settles Street is now in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, created on 1 April 1965, within the administrative area of Greater London.

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

It was also situated in the civil parish of Mile End Old Town, which was abolished 1927, when it was absorbed into Stepney Borough parish, which itself was abolished in 1965.

Registration Districts:

From 1 October 1857 - Mile End Old Town
From 1 January 1926 - Stepney
Since 1 January 1983 - Tower Hamlets (which would now hold the registers, if any)