Western Marble Arch Synagogue

Synagogue in London, United Kingdom

51°30′54″N 0°09′33″W / 51.5151°N 0.1591°W / 51.5151; -0.1591ArchitectureDate established1991 (merged congregation)

1761 (Western)
1957 (Mable Arch)

Completed1961Websitemarblearch.org.uk^[1]^[2]^[3]

The Western Marble Arch Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 1 Wallenberg Place, in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England, in the United Kingdom.

The congregation was formed in 1991 as the result of a merger between the Western and the Marble Arch Synagogues1, with the former congregation dating from 1761. It is a leading Modern Orthodox congregation and offers religious and social activities to its members and the wider community.^[3]^[4] The congregation worships in the Ashkenazi rite.

History

The Western Synagogue was founded in 1761 in Great Pulteney Street, Westminster. The congregation, formally named the Ḥevra Kadisha shel Gemilluth Ḥasadim (Hebrew: חברה קדישא של גמילות חסדים, lit. 'Holy Congregation of Acts of Charity') first met in the home of Wolf Liepman, a prosperous immigrant merchant from St. Petersburg.^[1] A series of leased spaces followed until 1826 when the congregation built an elaborate synagogue in St. Alban's Place, Haymarket and renamed itself The Western Synagogue.^[5]

The Western Synagogue and Marble Arch Synagogue, the latter founded in 1957, merged in 1991.^[4]

Notable members

Constance, Lady Battersea^[5]
Barrington Black
Lord David Gold
Sir Samuel Montagu, Lord Swaythling^[5]
Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery^[5]
Sir Gerald Ronson
Sir Stuart Samuel^[5]
Viscount David de Stern^[5]
Anthony Yadgaroff

References

^ ^a ^b Rubinstein, William D.; Jolles, Michael A.; Rubinstein, Hillary L., eds. (2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 1019–1020. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6. OCLC 793104984.
^ "Our People". Western Marble Arch. Retrieved 17 August 2023.^{[self-published source?]}
^ ^a ^b "The Western Marble Arch Synagogue". Jewish Communities and Records – UK. JewishGen and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain. 20 July 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
^ ^a ^b "The Western Synagogue". Jewish Communities and Records – UK. JewishGen and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain. 28 October 2006. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Lindsay, Paul (1993). The Synagogues of London. London: Vallentine Mitchell. p. 66.

Bibliography

Barnett, Arthur (1961). The Western Synagogue through Two Centuries (1761–1961). London: Vallentine Mitchell.
Levy, Mathias (1897). The Western Synagogue: Some Materials for its History. London: Geo. Barber.
Picciotto, James (1875). Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History. Trübner & Company, Ludgate Hill.
Roth, Cecil (1932). Records of the Western Synagogue, 1761–1932. London: E. Goldston.