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	  Congregation Data  | 
		 
	
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      Name:  | 
		
		 Brondesbury Synagogue  | 
	 
	
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		 Address:  | 
		
		 Chevening Road (south side, at junction with Carlisle Road), Brondesbury, 
		London N.W.6.  
		(The building, opened 9 April 1905(i), 
		was destroyed by arson in 1965, but then rebuilt. 
		It was sold in 1974 to Iman Al-Khoei Foundation and 
		is now the "premier Shia mosque" in London.)  | 
	 
	
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		 Date Formed::  | 
		
		 1900  | 
	 
	
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		 Current Status:  | 
		
		 Closed in 1974, with most of its members joining either the 
		Willesden Synagogue 
		or the 
		Cricklewood Synagogue.  
		 The Willesden Synagogue assumed the name
		Willesden & Brondesbury Synagogue, then changed its 
		name to the Brondesbury Synagogue and is now known as the 
		Brodesbury Park Synagogue.  | 
	 
	
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		 Ritual:  | 
		
		 Ashkenazi Orthodox  | 
	 
	
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		 Affiliation:  | 
		
		 A constituent synagogue of 
		the 
		United Synagogue from 
		1905 until its closure.  | 
	 
	
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		 Membership Data:  | 
		
		 Number of male seat-holders:(ii) 
		 
			
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				 1905  | 
				
				 1910  | 
				
				 1920  | 
				
				 1930  | 
				
				 1940  | 
				
				 1950  | 
				
				 1960  | 
				
				 1970  | 
			 
			
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				 170  | 
				
				 316  | 
				
				 522  | 
				
				 540  | 
				
				 515  | 
				
				 518  | 
				
				 401  | 
				
				 250  | 
			 
		 
		Also see below for seatholder records on All-UK 
		Database. | 
	 
	
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		 Local Government Districts:  | 
		
		 Brondesbury is a residential area in the London Borough of 
		Brent(iii) 
		and was previously (until 1965) in the former Municipal Borough of Willesden, 
		and prior thereto (from 1894 until 1933) in the former Urban District of 
		Willesden.  | 
	 
	
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		 Cemetery 
		Information:  | 
		
		 For 
		United Synagogue cemeteries, see Cemeteries of the United Synagogue.   | 
				 
	
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				Notes & 
		Sources (↵ 
		returns to text above)
		
		
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			Bibliography, On-line Articles 
			and Other Material 
			relating to this Congregation 
      
		on JCR-UK 
      
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      Congregational Records  | 
		     
	
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		Registration District (BDM):  | 
		
		
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		Marriage Records:  | 
		
		 Copies of the registers for "Willesden 
		Brondesbury Synagogue"  (seven registers for 1905-1974) held by the 
		Board of Deputies (ref; 16/41a/1-7) 
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