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Updated: 22 March 2015

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FOR ENLARGEMENT, CLICK ON THE IMAGE South-east corner of Piers Road and Mortimer Road, Wynberg, Cape Town.

• The Jewish community of Wynberg held its first services in 1896 in premises in Park Road, Wynberg.
• On 26 October 1902 the Wynberg Hebrew Congregation was established at a General Meeting for the purpose of building a Synagogue.
• Its first President was Mr Lewis Kottler.
• High Holy Day services in 1903 and 1904 were held in the Wynberg Town Hall.
• The foundation stone was laid on 2 August 1904 by Rev. A.P. Bender.
• Consecration: 4 June 1905 by Mr Hyman Lieberman, Mayor of Cape Town.
• The Communal Hall was opened on 15 August 1937.
• The Synagogue was enlarged in 1952.
• The then main entrance was partly damaged by a bomb in December 1998.
• The building was purchased by Science of the Soul in 2005 and since then occupied by that organization."

This building detail with a clearly visible Magen David is situated at the corner of Piers Road and Coghill Road, a few hundred yards east from the Wynberg Synagogue. The building was a lodge and was never a synagogue. In 2004 it housed an auctioneering business.