Chasidey Skver Beth Hamedresh

Name:

Chasidey Skver Beth Hemedrash

Alternative Names:

Beth Hemedrash D' Chasidey Skver

Beth Hemedrash D' Chasidey Square

Current Address:

47 East Bank, Stamford Hill, London N16 5PZ

(Location: East Bank (being the east bank of the railway cutting) runs south 1,000 feet from Amhurst Park, parallel with the road Stamford Hill some 400 feet to its west. The North London district of Stamford Hill, which together with adjacent Upper Clapton, parts of Stoke Newington and some adjoining areas, includes the largest concentration of Haredi Jews in Europe.)

Former Address:

Previously, until about early 2000's, at 22 Dunsmure Road, Stamford Hill, London N16 (formerly the address of Beth Joseph Synagogue, which may have been the predecessor congregation to this congregation)

(Location: Dunsmure Road runs for some 1,100 feet west from the road Stamford Hill (A10), approximately 1,000 south of the junction with Amhurst Park and Clapton Common.)

Current Status:

Active.

Date Formed:

Mid-1980's (source)

Source: Based upon earliest appearance in Jewish Year Books

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Affiliation:

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

Local Government Districts:

Stamford Hill and Amhurst Park are now in the London Borough of Hackney, an Inner London Borough created on 1 April 1965, within the administrative area of Greater London.

Previously both roads were 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:

From 1 July 1837