Austrian Synagogue

Congregation Data

Name:

Austrian Synagogue (formerly the Austrian Chevra)

Address:

68a Waterloo Road, Manchester M8 (from at least 1915)

(The congregation was considered part of the "North Manchester" Jewish community.)

Former Addresses:

Briddon Street, Strangeways, Manchester M3

Date Formed:

By 1905⁽ⁱ⁾

Current Status:

Closed about 1956⁽ⁱⁱ⁾, by which time the building in Waterloo Road was already demolished and the congregation could not obtain another building.

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Local Authority:

The congregation was in the centre of Manchester, which is now part of the metropolitan borough of the City of Manchester (now within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, which no longer has any administrative powers).
From 1889 to 1974, Manchester was a county borough (a unitary authority), geographically (though not administratively) within the County of Lancashire.