History
It was founded by 24 leading Jews at a meeting in the Bedford Hotel, Southampton Row, on 15 April 1840
The first synagogue opened in Burton Street on 27 January 1842
The Morning Chronicle reported on the opening of the new synagogue on the following day, noting that the plan was to “efface the distinction between the German and Portuguese Jews” and also to offer a place of worship “in the western part of the metropolis, no other being within a mile or a mile and a half” (Morning Chronicle, 28 January 1842)
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What was reforming about it?
It was the first synagogue for Reform Jews in Great Britain
Where in Bloomsbury
It was founded by 24 leading Jews at a meeting in the Bedford Hotel, Southampton Row, on 15 April 1840
The synagogue opened in Burton Street in 1842 and remained until 1849, when it moved to Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, and subsequently to purpose-built premises in Upper Berkeley Street in 1870
Website of current institution
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Books about it
Jessica Wyman, ‘West London Synagogue of British Jews’ (1990), available online at Jewish Communities & Records (opens in new window)
A. S. Diamond, The Building of a Synagogue: A Brief History (1970)
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