Wanstead & Woodford United Synagogue

Congregation Data

Last Name:

Wanstead and Woodford United Synagogue

Former Name:

Wanstead and Woodford Affiliated Synagogue, until March 2013

Address:

20 Churchfields, South Woodford, London E18 2QZ

Date Formed:

1948

Current Status:

Merged with Waltham Forest Hebrew Congregation (Boundary Road Synagogue) in November 2014, to form Woodford Forest United Synagogue.

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Affiliation:

An affiliated synagogue of the United Synagogue from joining in 1947 until March 2013, when it became a full (constituent) member synagogue.

Ministers:

Rabbi Beni Fleisher - from 2006 to November 2014 (merger)

Membership Data:

Number of male seat-holders (source)

Source: The United Synagogue 1870-1970 by Aubrey Newman (1977), pages 218/219

1947	1950	1960	1970
25	126	368	484

Local Government District:

South Woodford, a suburb of Woodford in northeast London, is in the London Borough of Redbridge, an Outer London Borough created on 1 April 1965, within the administrative area of Greater London.

Previously, South Woodford was in the Municipal Borough of Wanstead and Woodford (incorporated as a borough in 1937) within the County of Essex.

Registration District:

From 1 October 1935 - Essex South Western
Since 1 April 1965 - Redbridge