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Page created: 30 September 2006
Latest revision or update: 23 January 2018
Congregation Data |
Name: |
Brondesbury Synagogue |
Address: |
Chevening Road (south side, at junction with Carlisle Road), Brondesbury,
London N.W.6.
(The building, opened 9 April 1905(i),
was destroyed by arson in 1965, but then rebuilt.
It was sold in 1974 to Iman Al-Khoei Foundation and
is now the "premier Shia mosque" in London.) |
Date Formed:: |
1900 |
Current Status: |
Closed in 1974, with most of its members joining either the
Willesden Synagogue
or the
Cricklewood Synagogue.
The Willesden Synagogue assumed the name
Willesden & Brondesbury Synagogue, then changed its
name to the Brondesbury Synagogue and is now known as the
Brodesbury Park Synagogue. |
Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox |
Affiliation: |
A constituent synagogue of
the
United Synagogue from
1905 until its closure. |
Membership Data: |
Number of male seat-holders:(ii)
1905 |
1910 |
1920 |
1930 |
1940 |
1950 |
1960 |
1970 |
170 |
316 |
522 |
540 |
515 |
518 |
401 |
250 |
Also see below for seatholder records on All-UK
Database. |
Local Government Districts: |
Brondesbury is a residential area in the London Borough of
Brent(iii)
and was previously (until 1965) in the former Municipal Borough of Willesden,
and prior thereto (from 1894 until 1933) in the former Urban District of
Willesden. |
Cemetery
Information: |
For
United Synagogue cemeteries, see Cemeteries of the United Synagogue. |
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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Congregational Records |
Registration District (BDM): |
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Marriage Records: |
Copies of the registers for "Willesden
Brondesbury Synagogue" (seven registers for 1905-1974) held by the
Board of Deputies (ref; 16/41a/1-7)
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List of
United Synagogue
Congregations
Jewish Congregations in the
London Borough of Brent
Jewish Congregations in Greater London
Greater London home page
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