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Page created: 17 March 2003
Latest revision or update: 31 January 2018
Gates to the Court Yard of
the
Bevis Marks Synagogue
© David Shulman 2007 |
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Courtyard of the Bevis Marks Synagogue
following wedding in
September 2007
© David Shulman 2007 |
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Congregation Data |
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Name: |
Bevis Marks Synagogue |
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Official Name: |
S&P
Sephardi Community
(until about 2015 the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation) |
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Address: |
Bevis Marks, London EC3A 5DQ(i)
The synagogue was designated a Grade I Listed Building (number 1064745)
on 4 January 1950 (most recent amendment 10 November 1977).
View description
on Historic England website.
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Current Status: |
Active |
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Date Founded: |
1701 (although was successor to Synagogue in
Creechurch
Lane, founded in 1657) |
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Ritual: |
Orthodox
Sephardi, following Spanish & Portuguese rites, now often referred to as
Western Sephardi. |
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Affiliation: |
Bevis Marks Synagogue is a constituent
and the premier synagogue of the
S&P Sephardi Community (formerly the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation)
The other current constituent synagogues of the S&P Sephardi Community are:
the
Lauderdale Road Synagogue;
the
Wembley Sephardi Synagogue;
the
Montefiore Synagogue,
Ramsgate.
In addition, the
Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue, Holland Park, was
established under a Deed of Association with the then Spanish and Portuguese
Jews' Congregation.
The former Sephardi Synagogue in
Bryanston Street, formerly in Wigmore Street, W1, was a branch
congregation of Bevis Marks.
For additional information, see the section on
Sephardi congregations |
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Listed Building: |
The synagogue building (built 1699-99 - architect
Joseph Avis) is a Grade 1 Listed Building. |
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Website: |
https://www.sephardi.org.uk/ |
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Rabbis &
Ministers (to 1751)(ii): |
For the period prior to the construction of the synagogue
in Bevis Marks, see list of rabbis
of
Creechurch Lane Synagogue.
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Haham
Rabbi David Nieto - from 1702 to 1728
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Haham Rabbi Isaac Nieto - from 1733 to 1741
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Haham Rabbi Moses Gomez de Mesquita from 1744 to 1751
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Haham Rabbi
Moses Cohen
d'Azevedo - 1761 to 1784
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Haham Rabbi
Raphael
Meldola - 1805 to 1828
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Haham Rabbi
Benjamin
Artom - 1866 to 1879
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Haham Rabbi
Moses Gaster
- 1887 to 1917
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Rabbi Shem Tob Gaguine
- 1920 to 1953 - "Ecclesiastical Chief" of the Congregation
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Haham Rabbi
Solomon Gaon - 1947 to 1977
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Rabbi Abraham Levy
- 1995 to 2012 - "Communal Rabbi and Spiritual Head" of the Congregation
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Rabbi Joseph Dweck - 2013 to present (July
2017) "Senior Rabbi" of the S&P Sephardi Community"
List of Hahamin
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Membership Data: |
1800 -
242 members (out of estimated 2,000 to 4,000 Sephardi Jews in England)(iii) 1841 -
193 members(iv) |
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Local
Government
Districts: |
Bevis Marks is in the Aldgate Ward
of the City of London, within the administrative area
of Greater London.
Until the abolition in 1908 of civil parishes in the
City, it was in the parish of St. Katherine
Cree. |
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Registration District: |
City of London (since 1 July 1837) -
register office website (for Islington & City of London) |
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Cemetery Information: |
See
Cemeteries of the S&P Sephardi Community |
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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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Congregation History.
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Press Report relating
to the Congregation, 1873.
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Photographs of the Synagogue.
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Jewish Heritage Sites in the City of London
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Jewish Heritage Sites in Tower Hamlets
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Selected Bibliography:
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"First London Synagogue of the
Resettlement", by W.S. Samuel & M.N. Castello - Transactions - Jewish Historical Society of England X, 1921/3.
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Bevis Marks in History, by P.
Goodman, 1934 (Oxford
University Press).
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Bevis Marks Records I, II & III,
by R.D. Barnett and
G.H. Whitehill, 1940.
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The Laws and Charities of the Spanish & Portuguese
Jews Congregation of London, by N. Laski, 1952,(Cresset Press).
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"Correspondence of the Mahammad of the Spanish &
Portuguese Jews Congregation of London during the 17th and 18th Centuries",
by R.D.J. Barnett - Transactions - Jewish Historical Society of England XX, 11959/61.
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"Problems of the London Sephardi Community 1720-33",
by A.S. Diamond - Transactions - Jewish Historical Society of England
XXI, 11962/67.
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The Sephardim of
England, by A.M. Hyamson, 1951 (Methuen & Co., London).
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The Bevis Marks Synagogue, by R.D. Barnett and A. Levy, 1975 (Society of
Hashaim, London)
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The Oldest Synagogue, by A.M. Hyamson.
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The Synagogues of Europe, by
C.H. Krinsky, 1985 (The M.I.T.
Press, Cambridge MA), pp. 412-415.
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The Synagogues of London, by
Paul Lindsay, 1993 (Valentine
Mitchell, London), pp. 38-41.
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"The Burial Grounds of the Resettlement",
by Kadish,
Sharman, 2006 - Issue No. 1 of the Cable - the magazine of the Jewish
East End Celebration Society, pp 12-14.
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British Chief Rabbis 1664-2006, by Derek Taylor, 2007
(Valentine Mitchell, London)
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other City
sources
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other London
sources
on Third Party websites
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YouTube videos:
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Jewish Encyclopedia c. 1906, articles on:
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Sephardi Voices UK - a video and image archive held in the British
Library containing interviews and testimonies
on a wide range of topics relating to Sephardi/Mizrahi Jews.
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Congregational Records |
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Registration District (BDM): |
City of London (since 1 July 1837) -
Link to Register Office website
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Archives: |
Material Deposited with the London Metropolitan Archives
These include:
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records relating to the governance and
administration of the Congregation including ascamot (laws) of
the Congregation and minutes for the Mahamad (Executive), Elders
and Yehidim (Congregation);
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service registers covering births (1767–1882),
circumcisions (1715–85, 1803–25, 1855–69), ketubot (marriages
contracts, 1690–1795) and burials (1657–1935);
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property and legal papers; financial records;
some records for the Lauderdale Road and Mildmay Park Synagogue;
- personal papers and family records from members
of the Congregation; and
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some material relating
to Sephardic congregations in Barbados, Bordeaux, Amsterdam,
Venice and Germany.
The records in this
collection can only be accessed with prior written permission from
the Congregation, which can be obtained from the Honorary Archivist
and Chief Executive of the Congregation.
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List of
Sephardi Congregations
Street Directory of Synagogues in East End
and City of London
Jewish
Congregation in the City of London
Greater London home page
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