Stepney Orthodox Synagogue

Name:

Stepney Orthodox Synagogue

Alternative Names:

Stepney Synagogue

Stepney Green Synagogue

Address:

53 Stepney Green, London E1 from 1914

Previously at Paragon Mansions, Stepney Green, London E1.

(Location: Stepney Green, in London's East End, runs south-east from Mile End Road (part of the A11), (from a point about one-quarter of a mile east of Cambridge Heath Road) for about two-fifths of a mile, to Stepney High Street.)

The building at number 53 was a former Primitive Methodist Chapel. It was destroyed in a German Air Raid during WWII, after which the congregation used 61 Redman's Road, London E1 until the synagogue was rebuilt. Number 53 is currently a sports hall and young people's training centre.

Date Founded:

Founded in 1896, as a breakaway from the East London Synagogue (by a group who objected to the latter's mixed choir)

Current Status:

Closed, 1980. Amalgamated with Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue

Ritual:

Orthodox - Ashkenazi

Affiliation:

An affiliated synagogue of the Federation of Synagogues.

Membership Data:

1905  -    38 members (source)

Source: Jewish Year Book 1906

1915  -   105 members (source)

Source: Jewish Year Book 1916

Local Government Districts:

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

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

Stepney Green was also in the civil parish of Mile End Old Town (abolished in 1927 to be absorbed into Stepney Borough parish, which itself was abolished 1965), which was in the former County of Middlesex until 1889. From 1856 to 1900, the Vestry (council) of the Parish of Mile End Old Town was a local authority, with functions similar to that of a local government district council.

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)