The United Workmen's and Wlodowa Synagogue

Latest Name:

United Workmen's and Wlodowa Synagogue

Alternative Name:

United Workmen's Synagogue
Wlodowa Synagogue
Cheshire Street Synagogue (previously Hare Street Synagogue)

Address:

21 Cheshire Street (formerly Hare Street), Bethnal Green, London E2.

Previously in Spital Square, London E1.

(Location: Cheshire Street, in London's East End, runs east for some one-quarter of a mile from near the northern end of Brick Lane to just west of Vallance Road, parallel with the middle section of Bethnal Green Road, to the north.

Spital Square, is about three eighths of a mile southwest of the Cheshire Street, still in London's East End, and runs west-east from Norton Folgate (the northern extension of Bishopsgate) to Lamb Street, although it previously also extended to the north of its present location.)

Date Founded:

1901 (source)

Source: The Cable (magazine of the Jewish East End Celebration Society) No. 9, 2009, page 36

There was an amalgamation of certain congregations in 1910 or 1914

Current Status:

Closed, 1987 (source)

Source: The Cable (magazine of the Jewish East End Celebration Society) No. 9, 2009, page 36

Ritual:

Orthodox - Ashkenazi

Affiliation:

Independent, although its members were, and some may still be, affiliated for burial rights to the West End Great Synagogue.

Membership:

1987 (at closure) - 180 (source)

Source: The Cable (magazine of the Jewish East End Celebration Society) No. 9, 2009, page 36

Local Government Districts:

All the above addresses are now in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, created on 1 April 1965, within the administrative area of Greater London.

Previously, Cheshire Street was in the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green, and Spital Square was in the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney. Both metropolitan boroughs were established in 1900 in the County of London (which was established in 1889). All these entities were abolished in 1965.

Spital Square was within the historic Liberty of Norton Folgate, which was abolished in 1921, being absorbed into the civil parish of Whitechapel, which itself was abolished in 1927 to be absorbed into Stepney Borough parish (until that parish's abolition in 1965)

Registration Districts:

for Cheshire Street:

From 1 July 1837 - Bethnal Green
From 1 January 1966 - Poplar and Bethnal Green
Since 1 January 1983 - Tower Hamlets (which now holds the registers)

for Spital Square:

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