The New Synagogue

Congregation Data

Name:

The New Synagogue

Address in
Stamford Hill:

In March 1915, the Congregation moved from the City of London to a new purpose-built synagogue in Egerton Road, Stamford Hill, London N16 6UB,⁽ⁱ⁾ built in 1914-15 and designed by architect Ernest M. Joseph. The synagogue interior was reconstructed from the former City synagogue.

The synagogue, together with attached school, is a Grade II Listed Building (number 1264873), designated on 27 September 1991. View description on Historic England website.

In 1987, the synagogue building was sold to the Bobov Chasidic Community (and is used as Chasidey Bobov D'Ohel Naphtali and Yeshiva Bnei Zion Beth Hemedrash) and the much-shrunken congregation continued to meet in Egerton Road, at the Victoria Community Centre.

Former Addresses in City of London:

1838 to 1911

Great St. Helens Street, London EC3, built 1838.⁽ⁱⁱ⁾

1761 to 1837 - Bricklayers' Hall (Buckler's Hall, later known as Sussex Hall), Leadenhall Street (opposite ), London EC3.⁽ⁱⁱⁱ⁾

Current Status:

Active (in Stamford Hill), but now longer meets in the synagogue building, see above

Date Formed:

1762

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Affiliation:

One of the original five synagogues that formed the United Synagogue in 1870, of which it remains a constituent member.

Branch Congregations:

Bayswater Synagogue was a branch (jointly with the Great Synagogue) of the New Synagogue from 1863 to 1870.

Initially, the Gun Yard "Polish" Synagogue may have been a dependency of the New Synagogue.

In addition, the New Synagogue was one of the synagogues instrumental in setting up The Beth Hamedrash, sometime prior to 1782.

Membership Data:

In 1845 there were 185 ba'alai batim and 266 seatholders (Chief Rabbi's Questionnaire)

Number of male seat-holders^(iv):

1870	1880	1890	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970
283	358	294	318	204	654	702	607	1,022	1,119	729

Number of male seat-holders subsequent to 1970^(v):

1984	1989	1997
324	211	107

Local Government Districts:

in Stamford Hill:

Egerton Road is in the London Borough of Hackney and was previously (until 1 April 1965) in the somewhat smaller former Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.^(vi)

in the City:

Leadenhall Street and Great St. Helens Street are in the City of London.^(vii)

Until the abolition in 1908 of civil parishes in the City, the eastern section of Leadenhall Street was in the parish of St. Katherine Cree, in the Aldgate Ward, and Great St. Helens Street was in the parish of St. Helen, in the Bishopsgate Ward Within.

Registration Districts (BDM):

for the City:

City of London (from 1 July 1837) - link to Register Office website

for Stamford Hill:

Hackney (since relocation of congregation) - link to Register Office website