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Page created: 28 December 2011
Latest revision or update: 6 March 2017
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Congregation Data |
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Name: |
Central Synagogue |
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Previous
Name: |
Fernie Street Great Synagogue (until 1895) |
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Last Address: |
Heywood Street (corner Bellott Street),
Cheetham Hill,
Manchester, M8(i)
(The congregation was considered part of the
"North Manchester" Jewish community.) |
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Former Addresses: |
Cheetam Hill Road,
Manchester, M8 (possibly from 1895 until 1928) Fernie Street, Manchester, M4
(from at least 1892 to 1895, according to Marriage Registers ) |
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Date Formed: |
Founded
by 1892, but developed from Volkervishker Chevra
also known as
Chevra Walkawishk, founded in 1871,(ii)
which was in or very close to Red Bank, Manchester |
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Current Status: |
Merged in 1978 with North Manchester Synagogue to
form
Central and North Manchester Synagogue. (The old Synagogue building
in Heywood Street was used as a mosque in the 1980s.) |
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Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox |
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Membership: |
1905 - 250 seatholders (Jewish Year Book
1906) 1915 - 250 seatholders (Jewish Year
Book 1916) |
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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. |
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Cemetery Information: |
Cemeteries used by this
Congregation included
the Blackley Jewish Cemetery, Rochdale Road, which it acquired in 1897
and was subsequently shared with the
North Manchester Synagogue, and the Rainsough Jewish Cemetery, Rainsough
Brow, which it acquired in 1923 and subsequently shared with a number of
other
congregations.
For additional cemetery
details, see
Manchester Jewish Cemeteries
Information on Manchester Jewish Community home page. |
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Notes & Sources (↵
returns to text above)
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On-line Articles
and Other Material relating to the thus congregtion
on JCR-UK
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The conference paper on
"Manchester" from Provincial Jewry in Victorian
Britain includes information on this Congregation. -
Manchester Bibliography, which includes:
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Four Rabbinic Positions in Anglo-Jewry - The Central
Shul, Manchester. Louis Jacobs (Jewish Year Book 2000) pp. 77-79
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Other publications,
referred to in the footnotes to above Congregation Data, which
make reference to this congregation.
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Congregational
Records |
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At Manchester Register Office and Board of
Deputies: |
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At
Manchester Archives and Local Studies (ref:
M442/1): |
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1895-1949 -General and committee minutes;
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1926-1941 - Draft committee minutes;
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1926-1929 - Finance committee minutes;
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1929-1948 - Education Committee minutes;
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1928, 1948-1949 - Cemetery and Gardens Sub Committee minutes;
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1900-1948 - Grave and Burial Register Index.
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Greater Manchester Jewish Community home page
Jewish Congregations in the City of Manchester (metropolitan borough)
Street Directory of Jewish Congregations in Greater Manchester
Jewish Communities of England home page
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