Western Marble Arch Synagogue

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| religious_affiliation = Orthodox Judaism

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| rite = Nusach Ashkenaz

| status = Synagogue

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| leadership = {{ubl|Rabbi Daniel Epstein|Rabbi Lionel Rosenfeld {{small|(Emeritus)}}}}

| location = 1 Wallenberg Place, City of Westminster, Central London, England W1H 7TN

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| country = United Kingdom

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| established = 1991 {{small|(merged congregation)}} {{bulleted list|1761 {{small|(Western)}}|1957 {{small|(Mable Arch)}}}}

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| year_completed = 1961

| website = {{url|marblearch.org.uk}}

| footnotes = {{cite book|editor1-last=Rubinstein|editor1-first=William D.|editor1-link=William Rubinstein|editor2-last=Jolles|editor2-first=Michael A.|editor3-last=Rubinstein|editor3-first=Hillary L.| title=The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=London|year=2011|isbn=978-0-230-30466-6|oclc=793104984|pages=1019–1020}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.marblearch.org.uk/who-we-are/our-people/|title=Our People|website=Western Marble Arch|access-date=17 August 2023}}{{self-published-inline|date=April 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/london/marble_arch/index.htm |title=The Western Marble Arch Synagogue |date=20 July 2015 |access-date=28 April 2024 |website=Jewish Communities and Records – UK |publisher=JewishGen and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain}}

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The Western Marble Arch Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 1 Wallenberg Place, in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England, in the United Kingdom.

The congregation was formed in 1991 as the result of a merger between the Western and the Marble Arch Synagogues, with the former congregation dating from 1761. It is a leading Modern Orthodox congregation and offers religious and social activities to its members and the wider community.{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/london/western/index.htm |title=The Western Synagogue |date=28 October 2006 |access-date=17 August 2023 |website=Jewish Communities and Records – UK |publisher=JewishGen and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain}} The congregation worships in the Ashkenazi rite.

History

The Western Synagogue was founded in 1761 in Great Pulteney Street, Westminster. The congregation, formally named the Ḥevra Kadisha shel Gemilluth Ḥasadim ({{Langx|he|חברה קדישא של גמילות חסדים|translation=Holy Congregation of Acts of Charity}}) first met in the home of Wolf Liepman, a prosperous immigrant merchant from St. Petersburg.{{r|palgrave}} A series of leased spaces followed until 1826 when the congregation built an elaborate synagogue in St. Alban's Place, Haymarket and renamed itself The Western Synagogue.{{cite book|last=Lindsay|first=Paul|title=The Synagogues of London|publisher=Vallentine Mitchell|location=London|date=1993|page=66}}

The Western Synagogue and Marble Arch Synagogue, the latter founded in 1957, merged in 1991.

Notable members

References

=Bibliography=

{{cite book|title=The Western Synagogue through Two Centuries (1761–1961)|last=Barnett|first=Arthur|date=1961|location=London|publisher=Vallentine Mitchell}}
{{cite book|title=The Western Synagogue: Some Materials for its History|last=Levy|first=Mathias|date=1897|location=London|publisher=Geo. Barber|url=https://archive.org/details/westernsynagogue00levy/}}
{{cite book |last1=Picciotto |first1=James |title=Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History |date=1875 |publisher=Trübner & Company, Ludgate Hill |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fV4LAAAAIAAJ}}
{{cite book|title=Records of the Western Synagogue, 1761–1932|last=Roth|first=Cecil|date=1932|location=London|publisher=E. Goldston|url=https://www.bibliotheque-numerique-aiu.org/viewer/alto/16847/}}