Stoke Newington Synagogue

Name:

Stoke Newington Synagogue

Address:

Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London E8
(Note: despite its name, the synagogue was actually in Dalston, not Stoke Newington, which is further to the northwest.)

Date Formed:

1903 - as successor to the New Dalston Synagogue (which had been affiliated to the Federation of Synagogues)

Incorporated Congregations:

Dalston Synagogue in 1967 (which had itself incorporated the North London Synagogue in 1958)

Current Status:

Closed - amalgamated with Hackney Synagogue in 1976

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Affiliation:

A constituent synagogue of the United Synagogue from 1903 until its closure.

Membership Data:

Number of male seat-holders, 1897-1970⁽ⁱ⁾:

1903	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970
221	434	450	458	351	568	511	343

Also see below for seatholder records on All-UK Database.

Local Government Districts:

Shacklewell Lane is in the London Borough of Hackney, and was previously (until 1965) in the somewhat smaller former Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.⁽ⁱⁱ⁾ (Stoke Newington proper was in the former Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington to the northwest.)

Registration District (BDM):

Hackney (since founding of congregation) - Register Office website

Cemetery
Information:

For United Synagogue cemeteries, see Cemeteries of the United Synagogue.

For Federation of Synagogues cemeteries, see Cemeteries of the Federation of Synagogues.