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]
| Saatchi Synagogue | |
|---|---|
 Interior of the St John's Wood synagogue, the meeting place for the Saatchi Synagogue congregation | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Orthodox Judaism |
| Rite | Nusach Ashkenaz |
| Ecclesiastical or organisational status | Synagogue |
| Leadership | Rabbi Mendel Cohen |
| Status | Active |
| Location | |
| Location | 7/41 Grove End Road, City of Westminster, Central London, England NW89NG |
| Country | United Kingdom |
  Location of the synagogue in the City of Westminster | |
| Geographic coordinates | 51°32′01″N 0°11′11″W / 51.5335°N 0.1865°W |
| Architecture | |
| Founder | |
| Date established | 1998 (as a congregation) |
| Website | |
| saatchishul | |
History
editThe 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
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References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere. Indiana University Press. 2005. ISBN 0253111722. Retrieved 17 November 2013 – via Google Books.
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- ^ The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. ISBN 9781403939104. Retrieved 17 November 2013 – via Google Books.
- ^ Barry, Brian (2013). Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780745665641. Retrieved 17 November 2013 – via Google Books.
- ^ Massil, Stephen W. (2009). The Jewish Year Book 2009. Greenberg & Company. ISBN 9780853038900. Retrieved 17 November 2013 – via Google Books.
- ^ Toberman, Barry. "St John's Wood and Saatchi synagogues to merge". www.thejc.com. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
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