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Name: |
Spital Square Poltava Synagogue |
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Address: |
2a Heneage Street, London E1
(from about 1935).
(Location:
Heanage Street, in London's East End, runs east approximately 500 feet from
Brick Lane to Spelman Street (and at one stage extended some 150 feet beyond Spelman Street)
It runs parallel to Chicksand Street (to the south) and the eastern section of Princelet
Street - the part that had previously been known as Booth Street (to the
north). The synagogue was
on the southern side of Heneage Street.) |
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Former Address: |
10 Spital Square, Bishopsgate, London E1 (until about 1935)
(Location:
Spital Square, is about one-third of a mile to the west of Heaneage
Street, still in London's East End, and runs west-east from Norton
Folgate (the northern extension of Bishopsgate) to Lamb Street, although
it previously also extended to the north of its present location.) |
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Formation: |
Apparently formed in the 1920's by the merger of: |
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Spital Square Synagogue
(formerly German Synagogue, New Broad Street
or Old Broad
Street)
of Spital Square, Bishopsgate,
London E1. (Location:
Broad Street
(Old to the south, New to the north) extends for about one-quarter of a
mile north from Threadneadle Street
to Liverpool Street, in the City of London, running parallel to
Bishopsgate to the east.) |
Poltava Synagogue
50½ Hanbury Street, London E1
(The
Glory of Israel and Sons of Klatsk Synagogue
was at this address from late 1920's.)
(Location:
Hanbury Street to the east of Spital Square (it is an extension of Lamb
Street) and to the north of Heneage Street, runs in an easterly
direction from Commercial Street for one third of a mile, crossing over
Brick Lane, and previously extended for a further 800 feet.) |
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Founded in 1858, to include a benefit
society, known as Hevra Bikur Cholim) |
Founded by 1915 |
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Current Status: |
Closed after or about 1947 - (probably merged with Ezras Chaim
Synagogue to form
Ezras Chaim, Ain Yacov
and Poltava Synagogue). |
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Ritual: |
Orthodox - Ashkenazi |
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Affiliation: |
An affiliated synagogue of
the
Federation of Synagogues, as were the two separate synagogues prior to the merger.
The Spital Square Synagogue hosted the meeting of 16 October 1887, at
which it was decided to form the Federation of Synagogues (initially
known as the Federation of Minor Synagogues), and became one of the
original federated synagogues on 6 November 1887. |
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Membership Data: |
Spital Square Synagogue
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1870 - 300
members of the benefit society
(source) |
Source: "Social History of Jews in England" by V. D. Lipman |
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1896 - 120
members
(source) |
Source: Jewish Year Book 1896/97 |
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1905 - 110
members
(source) |
Source: Jewish Year Book 1906 |
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1915 - 113
members
(source) |
Source: Jewish Year Book 1916 |
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Poltava Synagogue
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1915 - 65 members
(source) |
Source: Jewish Year Book 1916 |
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Local Government
Districts: |
All the above addresses
(apart from Broad Street, which is in the City of London) are in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets,
created on 1 April 1965, within the administrative area of Greater London, and were previously in the
Metropolitan Borough of Stepney
(established 1900) within the County of London (established
1889), both of which entities were abolished in 1965.
As regards civil parishes, Heneage Street was within the civil parish of Spitalfields, Hanbury Street ran
through the civil parishes of Spitalfields and Mile End Old Town and Spital Square was within the historic
Liberty of Norton Folgate, all of which were in the former County of Middlesex until 1889.
From 1856 to
1900, each of these entities was a constituent of the Whitechapel District. The civil parishes of Spitalfields
and Mile End Old Town and Liberty of Norton Folgate, were 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). |
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Registration Districts: |
From 1 July 1837 - Whitechapel
From
1 January 1926 - Stepney
Since
1 January 1983 - Tower Hamlets (which now holds the registers)
For Broad Street, the Registration District was, and is, the City of
London. |
