Saatchi Synagogue

Saatchi Synagogue
Interior of the St John's Wood synagogue, the meeting place for the Saatchi Synagogue congregation
Religion
AffiliationOrthodox Judaism
RiteNusach Ashkenaz
Ecclesiastical or organisational statusSynagogue
LeadershipRabbi Mendel Cohen
StatusActive
Location
Location7/41 Grove End Road, City of Westminster, Central London, England NW89NG
CountryUnited Kingdom
Saatchi Synagogue is located in City of Westminster
Saatchi Synagogue
Location of the synagogue in the City of Westminster
Geographic coordinates51°32′01″N 0°11′11″W / 51.5335°N 0.1865°W / 51.5335; -0.1865
Architecture
Founder
Date established1998 (as a congregation)
Website
saatchishul.org

The Saatchi Synagogue, also called The Saatchi Shul, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation that worships from a synagogue located at 7/41 Grove End Road, in the City of Westminster, Central London, England, in the United Kingdom. The congregation worships in the Ashkenazi rite.[1]

History

The congregation was founded in 1998 in Maida Vale, London by Charles Saatchi and Maurice Saatchi.[2][3][4][5][6] The first rabbi of the congregation was Pinchas "Pini" Eliezer Dunner.[7][8][9]

Initially meeting at Andover Place, in Maida Vale, in a part of the building that once formed the Bayswater Synagogue,[1] the congregation subsequently moved its services to the site of the St John's Wood (United) Synagogue, and in 2018 plans were made to merge the two congregations.[10]

Rabbi Mendel Cohen has been the rabbinical leader of the congregation since 2010.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Saatchi Synagogue". Jewish Communities and Records-UK. JewishGen and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  2. ^ Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere. Indiana University Press. 2005. ISBN 0253111722. Retrieved 17 November 2013 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Stolow, Jeremy (2010). Orthodox by Design: Judaism, Print Politics, and the ArtScroll Revolution. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520264250. Retrieved 17 November 2013 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Endelman, Todd M. (2002). The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520935662. Retrieved 17 November 2013 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Slobin, Mark (2003). Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World Book & CD. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-976062-6. Retrieved 17 November 2013 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute Planning Assessment, 2004-2005: The Jewish People Between Thriving and Decline. Gefen Publishing House Ltd. 2005. ISBN 9789652293466. Retrieved 17 November 2013 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. ISBN 9781403939104. Retrieved 17 November 2013 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ Barry, Brian (2013). Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780745665641. Retrieved 17 November 2013 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ Massil, Stephen W. (2009). The Jewish Year Book 2009. Greenberg & Company. ISBN 9780853038900. Retrieved 17 November 2013 – via Google Books.
  10. ^ Toberman, Barry. "St John's Wood and Saatchi synagogues to merge". www.thejc.com. Retrieved 5 June 2019.


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