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Page created: 27 August 2006
Latest revision or update: 8 February 2018
Congregation Data |
Official Name: |
Upton Park District Synagogue |
Former Names: |
Upton Park Associate Synagogue
Upton Park Synagogue (until 1923) |
Last Address: |
Tudor Road, Green Street, London E6 |
Previous Addresses: |
277 Katherine Road, Forest Gate, London E7
(1918-1922).
Prior to then in a house in Plashet Grove, East Ham, London E6 and a
house in Queens Road, London E17 |
Date Formed: |
1911 |
Current Status: |
Closed 1972 - incorporated by
West Ham District Synagogue to
form the
West Ham & Upton Park Synagogue |
Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox |
Affiliation: |
An associate synagogue of the
United Synagogue from
1923, becoming a district synagogue in 1937.(i) |
Membership Data: |
Number of male seat-holders to 1970(ii): |
1940 |
1950 |
1960 |
1970 |
159 |
177 |
237 |
169 |
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Local Government
District: |
Upton Park is situated in east London, north of the river Thames and
it, and all addresses listed for the Congregation, are now in the London Borough of
Newham.(iii)
Previously, until 1965, all these addresses, apart from Queens Road,
were in the former County Borough of
East Ham (which had been a municipal borough until 1915). Queens
Road was in the former County Borough of
West Ham. |
Cemetery Information: |
For
United Synagogue cemeteries, see Cemeteries of the United Synagogue. |
Notes & Sources (↵
returns to text above)
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Bibliography
and Other Material relating to the this congregtion
on JCR-UK
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Bibliography.
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Earlham Grove Shul: One Hundred Years of West Ham Synagogue
and Community by Bloch, Howard 1997 (published by the West Ham & Upton
Park Synagogue).
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The Lost Synagogues of London. Renton, P., 2000 (Tymsder
Publications, London) p. 144
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Other
Newham
bibliography.
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Congregational Records |
Registration District (BDM): |
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Marriage Records: |
Marriage Registers (first entry January 1926; last entry October 1971)
deposited with Newham Register Office.
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List of
United Synagogue
Congregations
Jewish Congregations in the
London Borough of Newham
Jewish Congregations in Greater London
Greater London home page
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