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Bayswater Synagogue, 1938
Congregation Data |
Name: |
Bayswater Synagogue (known
as Bayswater & Maida Vale Synagogue from about 1972(i)) |
Address: |
Andover Place / Kilburn Park Road, Maida Vale, London W2, from 1967 to
1984 (when building became Jewish Preparatory School and, later, part
of building became the
Saatchi Synagogue) |
Previous Addresses: |
From 1965 to about 1967, services were held temporarily at 2 Ashworth Road,
London W9;(ii)
From 1863 to 1965, the synagogue was at
Chichester Place, Harrow Road, London W2. The building was designed by architects
Nathan Solomon Joseph, FRIBA
and Edward Salomons.(iii)
The foundation stone
was laid 10 July 1862 by the Chief Rabbi Dr. Nathan M. Adler, the building being consecrated
by him on 30 July 1863.(iv)
The building
was ultimately acquired by the Greater London Council and demolished to make way for a
motorway development(v). |
Date Founded: |
Formed in 1863, initially (until 1870) as a branch synagogue jointly of the
Great Synagogue and the
New Synagogue. For additional
information, see "the
Story of the Synagogue".
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Current Status: |
Closed 1984 |
Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox |
Affiliation: |
One of the original five
synagogues that formed the
United Synagogue in 1870, of which it
remained a constituent member until its closure. |
Ministers:
(To view a short profile of a minister
or reader - hold the cursor over his name.) |
Rev. Dr. Hermann Adler
- from 1864 until 1891(ix)
Rabbi Prof. Sir Hermann Gollancz
- from 1892 until 1922(x)
Rabbi Dayan Mark Gollop, B.A.
- from 1923 until 1930(xi)
Rev. Walter Levin
- from 1930 until 1938(xii)
Rev. Isaac Levy
- from 1938 until 1939
(leaving for army chaplain service)(xiii)
(Rev. Sidney Black
- temporary minister from 1940 until 1946(xiv))
Rev. Arthur Saul Super
- from 1947 until 1950(xvii)
Rev. Sidney Gold
- from about 1950 until 1960(xviii)
Rabbi Raymond Apple
- from about 1962 until about 1965(xix)
Rabbi Ephraim-Levy Gastwirth
- from 1973 until 1975(xx)
Rabbi Eliezer Simcha Rabinowitz B.A.
- from April to May 1976(xxi)
Rabbi Moshe Barron
- from about 1977 until about 1984(xxii) |
Readers / Cantors (Chazanim): |
First (or only) Readers
Rev. Isaac Samuel
- 1864 to 1914(xxiv)
Rev. David Klein
- c.1915 to 1934(xxvi)
(previously second reader)
Rev. Leo Bryll
- 1935 to 1955(xxxiii)
Rev. Abraham Lubin
- 1957 to 1958(xxxiv)
Rev. M. J. Dubiner
- c.1963 to c.1967(xxxv)
Rev. David Katanka
- 1972 to 1975(xxxvi) |
Second Readers
Rev. Raphael Harris
- 1863 to 1910(xxv)
Rev. David Klein
- 1910 to c.1915(xxvi)
(subsequently first reader)
Rev. Arthur Barnett
- c.1914 to c.1918(xxvii)
Rev. Ephraim Moses Levy
- c.1918 to c.1919(xxviii)
Rev. Asher Littenberg
- c.1919 to c.1923(xxix)
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Officers: |
See
List of Wardens of the Synagogue from 1864 through 1956.(xl)
See List of the Congregation's Financial
Representatives and Secretaries. |
Membership Data: |
List of Original Seatholders
of the Synagogue (including addresses)(xli)
Number of male
seat-holders:(xlii)
1870 |
1880 |
1890 |
1900 |
1910 |
1920 |
1930 |
1940 |
1950 |
1960 |
1970 |
359 |
318 |
377 |
365 |
306 |
366 |
338 |
293 |
406 |
419 |
191 |
National Reports & Surveys(xliii)
1977 - 204 male members and 203 female members
1983 - 177 male members and 173 female members
Also see below for seatholder records on All-UK
Database. |
Local Government District: |
Bayswater is an area of central London lying
to the north of Hyde Park. All the above addresses
for the Bayswater Synagogue are in the current City of Westminster and were
(from 1900 to 1965) in
the former Metropolitan Borough of Paddington. Prior thereto,
Paddington was solely a civil parish.(xliv) |
Cemetery Information: |
For
United Synagogue cemeteries, see Cemeteries of the United Synagogue. |
Notes & Sources (↵ returns to text above)
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Search the All-UK Database
The records in
the database specifically associated with the Bayswater Synagogue include:
Seatholders Lists
1885 (371 records);
1899 (463 records;
1910 (424 records);
1933 (297 records).
For a list of other
London records in the Database that may also include records
associated with this congregation,
click here.
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Bibliography, On-line Articles and Other Material relating to this Congregation
on JCR-UK
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Congregational Records |
Registration District (BMD): |
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Westminster (since 1 January 1978) -
Link to Register Office website
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Previous Registration Districts:
Paddington
-
until 1 January 1978; Marylebone - from
founding of the congregation until 1 January 1885. (All records
would now be held by the current office.)
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Marriage Registers: |
Marriage Registers (first entry 25 October
1865; last entry 20 May 1984) deposited with Westminster Register
Office
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Page created: 24 July 2003
Data significantly expanded and notes first added: 25 March 2018
Page most recently amended: 5 May 2024
Research and formatting by David Shulman
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