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the former

Stoke Newington Synagogue

London E8

 

 

   
 


Page created: 5 September 2006
Latest revision or update: 15 August 2017


The Former Stoke Newington Synagogue
Following Conversion to a Mosque.
© David Newman 2010

Congregation Data

Name:

Stoke Newington Synagogue

Address:

Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London E8
(Note: despite its name, the synagogue was actually in Dalston, not Stoke Newington, which is further to the northwest.)

Date Formed:

1903 - as successor to the New Dalston Synagogue (which had been affiliated to the Federation of Synagogues)

Incorporated Congregations:

Dalston Synagogue in 1967 (which had itself incorporated the North London Synagogue in 1958)

Current Status:

Closed - amalgamated with Hackney Synagogue in 1976

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Affiliation:

A constituent synagogue of the United Synagogue from 1903 until its closure.

Membership Data:

Number of male seat-holders, 1897-1970(i):

1903

1910

1920

1930

1940

1950

1960

1970

221

434

450

458

351

568

511

343

Also see below for seatholder records on All-UK Database.

Local Government Districts:

Shacklewell Lane is in the London Borough of Hackney, and was previously (until 1965) in the somewhat smaller former Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.(ii) (Stoke Newington proper was in the former Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington to the northwest.)

Registration District (BDM):

Hackney (since founding of congregation) - Register Office website

Cemetery
Information:

For United Synagogue cemeteries, see Cemeteries of the United Synagogue.

For Federation of Synagogues cemeteries, see Cemeteries of the Federation of Synagogues.

Notes & Sources ( returns to text above)

  • (ii) The United Synagogue 1870-1970 by Aubrey Newman (1977), pages 216/7.

  • (iv) The London Borough of Hackney, an Inner London Borough within the Greater London administrative area, was created on 1 April 1965 upon the merger of the former Metropolitan Borough of Hackney with the smaller Metropolitan Boroughs of Stoke Newington and Shoreditch. These metropolitan boroughs (each established in 1900) had been within the (then abolished) County of London (established in 1899).

 


 Search the All-UK Database

The records in the database specifically associated with the Stoke Newington Synagogue include:

Seatholders Lists

1910 (423 records);
1933 (446 records).

For a list of other London records in the Database that may also include records associated with this congregation, click here.
 

 

Bibliography, On-line Articles and Other Material
relating to this Congregation

on JCR-UK


List of United Synagogue Congregations

List of Congregations in the Federation of Synagogues


Street Directory of Congregations in Stamford Hill and Neighbourhood

Jewish Congregations in the London Borough of Hackney

Jewish Congregations in Greater London

Greater London home page

 
 

 
 

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