Congregation Data |
Name: |
"Kovno" Chevra(i) |
Address: |
Catherine Wheel Alley, Middlesex Street, London E1.(ii)
The congregation's premises consisted of a room above stables.(iii) |
Date Formed: |
1874(iii) |
Final Status: |
Closed in 1892, when the premises were condemned as non-habitable.(iii) |
Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox |
Affiliation: |
One of the 21 original members of the
Federation of Synagogues
(initially the Federation of Minor Synagogues), formed on 6 November 1887(vi),
although it does not appear to have been one of 16 congregations that
attended the meeting of 16 October 1887 at which it was agreed to form
the Federation.(vii) |
Local Government Districts: |
Catherine Wheel Alley is in
the ward of Bishopsgate Ward Without of the City of London, within the administrative area
of Greater London since 1965.
Until the abolition in 1908 of civil parishes in the
City, it was within the parish of St. Botolph Without Bishopsgate.
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Registration District (BMD): |
Since 1 July 1837 -
City of London
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Link to Register Office website |
Cemetery
Information: |
The only
Federation of Synagogues cemetery at the time was the cemetery at
Montague Road, Edmonton, consecrated 1889. See Cemeteries of the Federation of Synagogues. |
Notes &
Sources (↵ returns to text above)
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Bibliography, On-line Articles and Other Material relating to this Congregation
on JCR-UK
on Third Party websites
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List of Congregations in the Federation of Synagogues
Street Directory of Synagogues in London East End and City of London
Jewish Congregations of the
City of London
Greater London home page
Page created: 7 August 2007
Page most recently amended: 3 December 2018
Research and formatting by David Shulman
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