The Western Marble Arch Synagogue

Current Name:

The Western Marble Arch Synagogue

Formation:

The Congregation was formed in 1991 on the merger of The Marble Arch Synagogue and The Western Synagogue.

(This page also relates to The Marble Arch Synagogue. For The Western Synagogue, see Western Synagogue)

The Marble Arch Synagogue was founded in 1954.

Address:

1 Wallenberg Place (formerly known as Great Cumberland Place) London W1H 7TN, which was previously the address of The Marble Arch Synagogue (consecrated 1961)

The synagogue forms part of a Grade II Listed Building (number 1066769), designated on  December 1987. View description on Historic England website

Current Status:

Active

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Affiliation:

An associate synagogue of the United Synagogue since the 1991 merger (the only synagogue with such status).

Prior to the merger, Marble Arch Synagogue had been an affiliated synagogue of the United Synagogue from 1954 and a constituent synagogue from 1961.  (The Western Synagogue had been independent from its inception until the merger.)

Website:

http://www.wma-synagogue.org

Membership Data:

Number of male seat-holders, 1870 -1970: (source)

Source: The United Synagogue 1870-1970 by Aubrey Newman (1977), page 220

1954	1960	1970
58	341	467

Local Government District:

Great Cumberland Place is in the City of Westminster (a London Borough established in 1965) in Greater London.

Previously, Great Cumberland Place was in the former Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone within the former County of London.

Registration Districts:

From 1 January 1902 - St Marylebone
Since 1 January 1978 - Westminster