OLD DEVONPORT
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© Brian
Moseley, Plymouth Webpage created: March 17, 2017. Webpage updated: March 17, 2017 |
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- JEWISH SYNAGOGUE The Devonport Synagogue was a branch, or 'Minyan', of the Plymouth Synagogue and was located at 66 Chapel Street. There was a building used as a Synagogue in 1810 as there are references to it in an agreement signed on July 10th 1815 by a committee of men from both Plymouth and what was then Plymouth-Dock. It was probably ceased to be used in 1844 when one of the congregation, Mrs B Moss, presented the Plymouth Synagogue with a spice box which she had previously given to the 'Plymouth Dock Minyan Room'. In May 1907 the Reverend J Goldston*, master of the Jacob Nathan School in Well Street, Plymouth, consecrated a room in a house in Saint Aubyn Street, Devonport, for the use of the local Hebrew community. Then on Sunday January 19th 1908 a spacious new hall at number 66 Chapel Street, Devonport, was consecrated for them by the Reverend D Jacobs from the Plymouth Synagogue, assisted by the Reverend L Stavinsky and the Reverend J Goldston*. The President of the Synagogue was Mr J Greenburgh and the Secretary was Mr H R Emdon. The Devonport Synagogue was destroyed in the Second World War and was never replaced. * My thanks to
Rosemary Wenzerul, a great niece of the Reverend Goldston, for pointing out
the correct spelling of his surname. |
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