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| Some history of the Congregation of Jacob |
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Congregation of Jacob, now incorporating Chevra Yisroel, Bikur Cholim & Stetziver Synagogue, was the first Mizrachi Synagogue in Britain, founded in 1903 by Morris Koenigsberg and Abraham Schwalbe. It is likely that this congregation, which consisted of first generation immigrants from Poland, Lithuania and Russia; Orthodox Jews from small shtetls such as Stetziver, Kalisz and Vikaviskis met in the front room of Mr Koenigsburg's family house on Commercial Road, later occupying our present premises in 1921, which was redesigned by Lewis Solomon & Son, honorary architects to the Federation of Synagogues.
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Congregation of Jacob
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351-353 Commercial Road
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+44.20 7790 2874  |
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Shabbat |
Responsible: |
Rev. David Brandes;
Telephone:+44.(0)20 7790 2874 ;
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Kehillas Ya'akov is a "valuable and venerable relic of Anglo-Jewish social history" and "one of England's last intimate folk-art Eastern European synagogues" (Dr Sharman Kadish).
It is one of three synagogues in London's East End still functioning with members from all types of trades and backgrounds. It's affiliated to three burial societies, Federation, Adath and Chesed Ve'emeth, but they retain their independence, reflected by the fact that the synagogue is owned and managed by members of the community. Kehillas Ya'akov "is a remarkable survival… and is all the more exceptional for continuing in use as a synagogue" (English Heritage Report 2002). |
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