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Devonport Synagogue

Devonport, Plymouth, Devon

 

 

   
 


Page created: 5 May 2006
Latest update or revision: 20 June 2016

Congregation Data

Name:

Devonport Synagogue

Address:

66 Chapel Street, Devonport, Plymouth, from May 1907.
(Initially used a room in St Aubyn Street, Devonport)

Date Founded:

There was a predecessor congregation established in the 1890s, although the name Devonport Synagogue was not adopted until the congregation moved into the Chapel Street premises in 1907. The congregation was an offshoot and branch of the main Plymouth Synagogue

Current Status:

Closed - Damaged by German air raid in 1941. Site taken inside the Royal Docks in 1950's.

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Cemeteries:

See Plymouth Jewish Cemetery Information


See Plymouth Jewish Community home page,
which includes many articles relating to the Plymouth Jewish Community.


List of Synagogues destroyed by German air raids during World War II

Jewish Congregations in Devon

Jewish Communities of England home page

 

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