Cutler Street "Polish" Synagogue

Congregation Data

Name:

Cutler Street "Polish" Synagogue

Alternative Names:

Polish Synagogue

Carter Street Synagogue

Address:

Clothier Street⁽ⁱ⁾ (formerly Carter Street), Cutler Street, Houndsditch, London E1.

The synagogue appears to have been situated on the first floor (or higher) of a building on the corner of Cutler Street and Clothier Street (Carter Street), next to a brewery owned and run by the Harris family.

Date Formed:

1790 or 1802 (depending on source) - one of the three minor congregations reputedly established in London in the eighteenth century. The others were the Rosemary Lane Congregation and the Gun Yard "Polish" Synagogue.

Current Status:

Closed in late 1930s⁽ⁱⁱ⁾

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Affiliation:

Initially a dependency of the Great Synagogue

Listed, under the name Carter Street Synagogue, as one of the 16 congregations that attended the meeting on 16 October 1887 to form the Federation of Synagogues⁽ⁱⁱⁱ⁾, and it became one of the original 21 or 22 federated synagogues on 6 November 1887^(iv). 

The synagogue later became unaffiliated.

Local Government Districts:

Cutler Street and Clothier Street are in the Portsoken Ward of the City of London, within the administrative area of Greater London. Until the abolition in 1908 of civil parishes in the City, the streets were in the parish of St. Botolph Without Aldgate.

Registration District:

City of London (since 1 July 1837) - register office website (for Islington & City of London)

Cemetery
Information:

See Cemeteries of the Federation of Synagogues.