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Latest Names: |
King Edward Street Synagogue
Voice of Jacob
Synagogue (This may have been the name of a different
congregation in the same street. Furthermore, this also appears to
have been the former name of the
Lovers of Peace Synagogue
of 183/185 Hanbury Street until the 1930's.) |
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Former Name: |
King Edward Street New Synagogue |
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Address: |
King Edward Street,
London E1
(Location: The whole neighbourhood
in which King Edward Street was situated,
in London's East End, has been redeveloped and the street no longer exists today.
King Edward Street ran north some 400 feet from Old Montague Street to
Hanbury Street (which extended further east than it does today), about 600 feet east of
Baker's Row (now Vallance Road). It was parallel
to Dunk Street (to the West) and Queen Street (to the East), both of
which also no longer exist.) |
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Date Founded: |
1930 - per Jewish Year
Book (First entry in marriage register for Voice of Jacob Synagogue was
in 1931.) |
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Date
Founded: |
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About 1930
(source) |
Source: Based on earliest listing
in Jewish
Year Books. The first entry in the marriage register for Voice of Jacob
Synagogue was in 1931. |
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Current Status: |
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Closed, after 1956
(source) |
Source: Based on latest listing
in Jewish
Year Books. The last entry in the marriage register for Voice of Jacob Synagogue
was in 1944. |
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Ritual: |
Orthodox - Ashkenazi |
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Affiliation: |
An affiliated synagogue of
the
Federation of Synagogues, although a section of members were affiliated for burial
rights to the
West End Great Synagogue. |
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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,
King Edward 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. |
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Registration Districts: |
From
1 January 1926 - Stepney
Since
1 January 1983 - Tower Hamlets (which now holds the registers) |
