Sons of Britchan Synagogue

Name:

Sons of Britchan Synagogue (B'nai Britchan Synagogue)

Address:

23 Bromehead Street, Commercial Road, London E1.

(Location: Bromehead Street, in London's East End, is a short street running north from Commercial Road, and now leads to the Sidney Estate. It runs parallel to Sidney Street (to the west) and Jubilee Street (to the east).)

Date Founded:

By 1922 (source)

Source: First entry in marriage register

Current Status:

Closed, September 1952, incorporated into Nelson Street Sphardish Synagogue

Ritual:

Orthodox - Ashkenazi

Affiliation:

An affiliated synagogue of  the Federation of Synagogues.

Local Government Districts:

London Borough of Tower Hamlets, created on 1 April 1965, within the administrative area of Greater London.

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

Bromehead Street had also been part of the civil parish of Mile End Old Town, which was abolished in 1927, to be absorbed into Stepney Borough parish, which was abolished in 1965.

Registration Districts:

From 1 October 1857 - Mile End Old Town
From 1 January 1926 - Stepney
Since 1 January 1983 - Tower Hamlets (which now holds the registers)