Biala Synagogue

Name:

Biala Synagogue

Address:

10 St. Mark's Rise, Dalston, London E8

(Location: St. Mark's Rise runs south some 900 feet long from Downs Park Road to Ridley Road, just to the north of Dalston Lane and east of Kingsland High Street.)

Former Address:

Previously 7 St. Mark's Rise (until about 1951)

Date Founded:

Early/mid 1940's (source)

Source: Based upon first appearance in Jewish Year Books

Current Status:

Closed about 1963 (source)

Source: Based upon last appearance in Jewish Year Book 1963

(Note a Biala Beth Hamedrash was subsequently founded in the 1990's)

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Affiliation:

A synagogue associated with the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations (UOHC).

Local Government District:

Most of Dalston (including St. Mark's Rise) is in the London Borough of Hackney, an Inner London Borough created on 1 April 1965, within the administrative area of Greater London.

Previously it was in the somewhat smaller former Metropolitan Borough of Hackney (established 1900) in the County of London (established 1889), both of which entities were abolished in 1965.

Registration District:

Since 1 April 1965 - Hackney