Highams Park and Chingford Synagogue

Congregation Data

Current Name:

Highams Park and Chingford Synagogue

Former Names:

Highams Park and Chingford Affiliated Synagogue and
Highams Park and Chingford Hebrew Congregation

Address:

81a Marlborough Road, Chingford, London E4  9AJ (from late 1930's),
previously at 29 Castle Avenue, London E4 (from about 1935)

Current Status:

Active

Date Formed:

By 1932

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Affiliation:

An affiliated synagogue of the United Synagogue from joining in 1932, becoming a full member synagogue in about 2014.

Ministers:

Rabbi Avraham Kahan - from about 2005 to present (May 2017)

Membership Data:

Number of male seat-holders: (source)

Source: The United Synagogue 1870-1970 by Aubrey Newman (1977), pages 218/219

1932	1940	1950	1960	1970
124	120	279	357	340

Local Government District:

The suburbs of Chingford and most of Highams Park are in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, an outer London borough created on 1 April 1965 and situated in the north/northwest of the administrative area of Greater London.

They were previously in the former Municipal Borough of Chingford (incorporated as a borough in 1938, previously an Urban District from 1894) in the County of Essex.

Registration District:

From 1 July 1837 - Epping
Since 1 April 1965 - Waltham Forest (which would now hold any registers)