Harrow District Synagogue

Latest Name:

Harrow District Synagogue

Former Names:

Harrow and Kenton District Synagogue

Harrow Kenton & District Hebrew Congregation

Addresses:

3 Vaughan Road, Harrow, Middx. (1946 to 1972)
Previously, Sheepcote Road, Harrow, Middx. (1928 to 1946)

Date Formed:

1918

Current Status:

Closed 1972

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Affiliation:

Affiliated to the United Synagogue from 1933, becoming a district synagogue in 1949.

Membership Data:

Number of male seat-holders: (source)

Source: The United Synagogue 1870-1970 by Aubrey Newman (1977), pages 218/9

1946	1950	1960	1970
80	275	227	85

Local Government District:

The suburb of Harrow, in Northwest London, is in the London Borough of Harrow, an Outer London Borough created on 1 April 1965 (within the administrative area of Greater London).

Prior thereto, it was in the Municipal Borough of Harrow from 1954 and the Urban District of Harrow from 1934 (both coextensive with the London borough), within the former County of Middlesex.

Registration Districts:

From 1 July 1837 - Hendon
Since 1 October 1947 - Harrow