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Official Name: |
Peace & Tranquillity Synagogue (or Peace
& Tranquillity Chevra) |
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Alternative Names: |
Buckle Street Synagogue
Mansell Street Synagogue (initially) |
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Addresses: |
26 Buckle Street, Leman Street, London E1,
prior thereto, Mansell Street, Aldgate, London E1, from 1880's to early
1900's. (Apparently, in error, referred to in Geoffrey Alderman's history of "The
Federation of Synagogues 1887-1987" as the 'Marshall Street
chevra".) |
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Street Locations: |
Buckle
Street runs east some 300 feet from Leman Street, in London's East End,
about 300 feet south of the junction of Whitechapel High Street and
Commercial Road. It is parallel with the former Little Alie Street
section of Alie Street (150 feet to the south).
Mansell Street is about 500 feet west of Buckle Street, and runs south
some 1,000 feet from Aldgate High Street (opposite Middlesex Street). It
is parallel with Leman Street (500 feet to the east) and Minories (400
feet to the west). |
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Date Founded: |
Between 1881 to 1887 |
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Current Status: |
Closed on or after 1910
(based on date of list of members (see below).
The latest
entry in marriage register (according to which, the congregation merged with
Little Alie Street Synagogue)
was 1908 |
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Ritual: |
Orthodox - Ashkenazi |
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Affiliation: |
One of the congregations that attended the meeting of
16 October 1887 to form the
Federation of Synagogues, and became one of
the original federated synagogues on 6 November 1887. |
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Membership Data: |
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1896 - 50
members
(source) |
Source: Jewish Year Book 1896/97 |
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1905 - 60
members
(source) |
Source: Jewish Year Book 1906 |
1909/10 - 22 members (as per
List of Members, reproduced from document deposited with LMA) |
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Local
Government
Districts: |
Buckle Street and the
southern section of Mansell Street are in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets,
created on 1 April 1965, within the administrative area of Greater London.
The northern 400 feet of Mansell Street is in the City of London. Previously,
Buckle Street and southern Mansell Street were in the Metropolitan Borough of
Stepney (established 1900) in the County of London
(established 1889), both of which entities were abolished in 1965.
They were also within the civil parish of Whitechapel (which was in the
former County of Middlesex until 1889) and which, from 1856 to 1900, was
a constituent of the Whitechapel District.
The civil parish of Whitechapel was abolished in 1927, being absorbed
into Stepney Borough parish, which itself was abolished in 1965. |
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Registration Districts: |
From 1 July 1837 - Whitechapel
From
1 January 1926 - Stepney
Since
1 January 1983 - Tower Hamlets (which now holds the registers) |
