Zeire Agudath Yisroel Beth Hamedrash

Name:

Zeire Agudath Yisroel Beth Hamedrash

Alternative Name:

Beth Hamedrash of the Agudah Youth Movement (English version from the Hebrew)

Current Addresses:

69 Lordship Road (first floor), Stamford Hill, London N16 0QX, and
95 Stamford Hill, London N16 5DN (which was previously the address of Ahvas Torah Synagogue)

(Location: The road Stamford Hill is a seven-eighths of a mile section of the A10 running north from Stoke Newington High Street to High Road, Tottenham. Lordship Road (approximately one-third of a mile west of the road Stamford Hill) runs south for seven-eighths of a mile from Seven Sisters Road to Stoke Newington Church Street. The North London districts of Stamford Hill, Upper Clapton, parts of Stoke Newington and some other adjoining areas include the largest concentration of Haredi Jews in Europe.)

Current Status:

Active

Date Founded:

Late 1950's (source)

Source: Based upon first appearance in Jewish Year Books

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Rabbi:

The Congregation does not currently have a formal Rabbi (November 2015)

Affiliation:

A synagogue associated with the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations (UOHC).

Local Government District:

Lordship Road and Stamford Hill are now in the London Borough of Hackney, an Inner London Borough created on 1 April 1965, within the administrative area of Greater London.

Previously Lordship Road was in the former Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington and Stamford Hill was in the former Metropolitan Borough of Hackney (both established 1900) in the County of London (established 1889), all of which entities were abolished in 1965.

Registration District:

Stamford Hill:

Since 1 July 1837 - Hackney

Lordship Road:

From 1 October 1930 - Stoke Newington
Since 1 July 1979 - Hackney