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From about 1820, many Jewish families had joined the westward expansion of London, placing them at an inconvenient distance from established synagogues whose wardens ("the Jewish City Fathers") required them to attend, even to the exclusion of private worship. Agitation commenced for a new synagogue,
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and "endless negative negotiations ensued between those who had moved into the Bayswater area and the authorities of the City synagogues." Support was gained from
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and, after orderly formal proceedings, the Chichester Road site was selected and the foundation stone laid on 10 July 1862. On 21 February 1863
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bombing, with the loss of a portrait gallery of 19th-century communal leaders. On the same night (10 May 1941), both London's
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Baker T. F. T.; Bolton, Diane K.; Croot, Patricia E. C. (1989). "Paddington: Judaism". In Elrington C. R. (ed.).
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published an article on the new synagogue and, on 30 July 1863, the building was consecrated by the Chief Rabbi.
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This article about a synagogue or other Jewish place of worship in the United Kingdom is a
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Phillips, Olga S.; Simons, Hyman A. The Bayswater Synagogue 1863–1963, London 1963
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and the New Synagogue, it was one of the original five synagogues that formed the
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in 1870. The original building was demolished in 1965 for construction of the
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and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain. March 2013.
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Religious buildings and structures in the City of Westminster
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A History of the County of Middlesex: Hampstead, Paddington
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Built in 1863, as a branch synagogue jointly of the
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Affiliation
Orthodox Judaism
Nusach Ashkenaz
Ecclesiastical or organisational status
Synagogue
Paddington
City of Westminster
London
England
Bayswater Synagogue is located in City of Westminster
City of Westminster
Geographic coordinates
51°31′11″N 0°11′14″W / 51.519834°N 0.187235°W / 51.519834; -0.187235
Materials
Orthodox
Jewish
synagogue
Paddington
City of Westminster
London
England
Ashkenazi
rite
Great Synagogue
United Synagogue
Westway
Chief Rabbi
Nathan Marcus Adler
the Blitz

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