Name:

Wilkes Street Synagogue

Alternative or Former Name:

Glory of Jacob Synagogue

Address:

93 Wilkes Street, Spitalfields, London E1.

(Location: Wilkes Street, in London's East End, runs north from Fournier Street, parallel to, and 300 feet to the west of, Brick Lane. It was originally some one-third of a mile long, stretching past Quaker Street, but following major redevelopment in the area, only the southern 400 feet (until Hanbury Street) remain.)

Date Founded:

By 1905 (source)

Source: Listed in Jewish Year Book 1906

Incorporated Congregation:

Yanover Synagogue in May 1905 (source)

Source: Jewish Chronicle 12 May 1905, p. 19, as cited by Daniel Appelby in "Service and Scandal: the life and times of an immigrant Jewish Clergyman", p.87

Current Status:

Closed after 1935 (source)

Source:  Based upon latest appearance in Jewish Year Books

Ritual:

Orthodox - Ashkenazi

Affiliation:

An affiliated synagogue of the Federation of Synagogues.

Membership Data:

1905  -  85 members (source)

Source: Jewish Year Book 1906, referred to as "Glory of Jacob

1915  -  80 members (source)

Source: Jewish Year Book 1916

Local Government Districts:

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

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

Wilkes Street was also within the civil parish of Spitalfields, which was abolished in 1921, being absorbed into the civil parish of Whitechapel, which itself was abolished in 1927 and 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 would now hold the registers, if any)