White's Row Synagogue

Congregation Data

Name:

White's Row Synagogue

Former and Name:

"Soul of Man" Society (Chevra Menacham Avalim Nismas Adam)

Address:

2 White's Row, Spitalfields, London E1.

(Location: White's Row, in London's East End, runs 400 feet west from Commercial Street to Bell Lane, opposite Fashion Street and parallel with Brushfield Street, to the north.)

Date Founded:

1860 (source)

Source: The Jewish Directory for 1874 by Asher I Myers

Synagogue Objects

"Established for evening and morning worship. Also for Relief during confined mourning"

(source)

Source: The Jewish Directory for 1874 by Asher I Myers

Current Status:

Closed by 1905 (source)

Source:  Based upon latest appearance in Jewish Year Books

Ritual:

Orthodox - Ashkenazi

Affiliation:

An affiliated synagogue of the Federation of Synagogues.

Membership Data:

1870  -    70 members (source)

Source: Social History of Jews in England" by V.D. Lipman, p. 74

1896  -  110 members (source)

Source: Jewish Year Book 1896/97

Synagogue had seat capacity for 160 persons (1874)

Local Government Districts:

White's Row is now in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, created on 1 April 1965, within the administrative area of Greater London.

Previously, White's Row was in the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney (established 1900) in the County of London (established 1889), both of which entities were abolished in 1965.

White's Row was also within the civil parish of Spitalfields (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 Spitalfields was abolished in 1921, being absorbed into the civil parish of Whitechapel, which itself was abolished in 1927 and absorbed into Stepney Borough parish (until that parish's abolition in 1965).

Registration Districts:

From 1 July 1837 - Whitechapel
From 1 January 1926 - Stepney
Since 1 January 1983 - Tower Hamlets (which now holds the registers, if any)

Cemetery Infformation:

See IAJGS Cemeteries Project - Cemeteries of the Federation of Synagogues