Austrian (Dzikower) Synagogue

Name:

Austrian Dzikower Synagogue

Alternative Names:

Dunk Street Synagogue, (Austrian)
Dunk Street Austrian Synagogue
Austrian Synagogue
Dzikower Synagogue
Dzikover Synagogue

Address:

30 Dunk Street, London E1 (Synagogue consecrated 13 May 1914)

(Location: The whole neighbourhood in which Dunk Street was situated, in London's East End, has been redeveloped and the street no longer exists. Dunk Street ran north some 500 feet from Old Montague Street to Hanbury Street, about 800 feet east of Baker's Row (now the southern section of Vallance Road). It was parallel with Great Garden Street (now known as Greatorex Street), to the West, and King Edward Street (which also no longer exist), to the East.)

Date Founded:

1896

Current Status:

Closed, 1957

Ritual:

Orthodox - Ashkenazi

Affiliation:

An affiliated synagogue of the Federation of Synagogues.

Membership Data:

1905  -   60 members (source)

Source: Jewish Year Book 1906

1915  -   37 members (source)

Source: Jewish Year Book 1916

Local Government Districts:

The locality is now in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, created on 1 April 1965, within the administrative area of Greater London.

Previously, Dunk Street was in the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney (established 1900) within the County of London (established 1889), both of which entities were abolished in 1965.

Dunk Street was also within the civil parish of Mile End New Town (established 1866), which was in the former County of Middlesex until 1889, and which, from 1856 to 1900, was a constituent of the Whitechapel District.

The civil parish of Mile End New Town 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:

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