Queens Park Synagogue

Page created: 17 October 2005
Latest revision or update: 11 September 2016

Congregation Data
Name:	Queens Park Synagogue
Address:	2 Falloch Road, 60 Lochleven Road, G42 9JU, built in 1926, consecrated 27 March 1927. The synagogue building is a Scottish Category B Listed Building (number LB32368), designated on 5 December 1989. View description on Historic Environment Scotland website. The building was converted into 15 flats in 2008.
Previous Address:	Lochleven Road, Glasgow (known as the "Tin Shul") from 1917 to 1926, and previously 3 Battlefield Crescent, Glasgow
Founded:	About 1906
Incorporated Congregation:	Crosshill Hebrew Congregation from about 1986
Current Status:	Closed. Last service held on Yom Kippur, 16 September 2002. Merged with Netherlee & Clarkston Hebrew Congregation to form Netherlee, Clarkston & Queen's Park Hebrew Congregation
Ritual:	Ashkenazi Orthodox
Membership Data:	1938 - 600 seatholders (Jewish Year Book 1939) 1961 - 650 seatholders (Jewish Year Book 1962)
Cemeteries:	From 1927, the Congregation used the Cathcart Cemetery, Jewish Section. (For further details, see Glasgow Cemetery Information on Glasgow home page.)

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