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Southern Africa Jewish Genealogy SA-SIG

Wynberg Hebrew Congregation
Wynberg, Cape Town

 
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Updated: 22 March 2015

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South-east corner of Piers Road and Mortimer Road,
Wynberg, Cape Town.

  • The Jewish community of Wynberg held its first services in 1896 in premises in Park Road, Wynberg.
  • On 26 October 1902 the Wynberg Hebrew Congregation was established at a General Meeting for the purpose of building a Synagogue.
  • Its first President was Mr Lewis Kottler.
  • High Holy Day services in 1903 and 1904 were held in the Wynberg Town Hall.
  • The foundation stone was laid on 2 August 1904 by Rev. A.P. Bender.
  • Consecration: 4 June 1905 by Mr Hyman Lieberman, Mayor of Cape Town.
  • The Communal Hall was opened on 15 August 1937.
  • The Synagogue was enlarged in 1952.
  • The then main entrance was partly damaged by a bomb in December 1998.
  • The building was purchased by Science of the Soul in 2005 and since then occupied by that organization."


This building detail with a clearly visible Magen David is situated at the corner of Piers Road and Coghill Road, a few hundred yards east from the Wynberg Synagogue. The building was a lodge and was never a synagogue. In 2004 it housed an auctioneering business.

 

 

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