Congregation Data

Bryanston Street Sephardic Synagogue

Wigmore Street Synagogue

Spanish and Portuguese Branch Synagogue, West End

Bryanston Street (near Marble Arch), London W1
The synagogue was erected in 1861⁽ⁱⁱⁱ⁾, designed by architect Hyman Henry Collins, FRIBA.^(iv)

The congregation previously met at Wigmore Street, London W1 until about 1861, having been situated there since 1853.

Closed in September 1896, succeeded by Lauderdale Road Synagogue^(v)

1853

Orthodox Sephardi

A branch synagogue of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews Congregation, Bevis Marks.

The Jewish Directory for 1874^(vi) states that the Wardens and Secretary are same the Bevis Marks Synagogue. However, it lists the following officers for the Congregation:

Reader: Revd. Joseph Pipernono

Superintendent: Haim Capua

Bryanston Street and Wigmore Street are now in the City of Westminster and were (from 1900 to 1965) in the former Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone. Prior to 1900, St Marylebone was a civil parish in the former County of Middlesex.^(ix)

Westminster^(x) - Register Office website

Cemetery Information:

See Cemeteries of the Spanish & Portugues Jews' Congregation

Notes & Sources (↵ returns to text above)

• (i) and (ii) Reserved.

• (iii) Jewish Year Book 1896. ↵

• (iv) Carol Herselle Krinsky - Synagogues of Europe - Architecture, History, Meaning, 1996, Appendix I, p. 430. To view a description of the Jewish architectural works by H.H. Collins, hold your cursor over his name. ↵

• (v) Jewish Year Book 1896. ↵

• (vi) Jewish Directory for 1874 by Asher I Myers, p.4. ↵

• (vii) and (viii) Reserved.

• (ix) The City of Westminster is an Inner London Borough within the Greater London administrative area and was created on 1 April 1965 upon the merger of the former City of Westminster (a Metropolitan Borough) with the Metropolitan Boroughs of St Marylebone and Paddington.The metropolitan boroughs were created in 1900 and had been within the former County of London (established in 1899, abolished 1965). Until 1899, St Marylebone, a civil parish, had been part of the former county of Middlesex.  ↵

• ((x) The former Registration District was St Marylebone,from 1 January 1902 until 1 January 1978, and prior thereto, Marylebone, from the formation of Congregation. All registers would now be held by the current register office. ↵/a>