Metadata: Newcastle, Leazes Park Road Synagogue
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Tyne and Wear Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Tyne and Wear Archives
- Postal address:
- Tyne and Wear Archives, Discovery Museum, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA
- Phone number:
- 44(0)191 2772248
- Web address:
- https://twarchives.org.uk/
- Reference number:
- C.NC65
- Title:
- Newcastle, Leazes Park Road Synagogue
- Title (official language):
- Leazes Park Synagogue
- Creator/accumulator:
- Leazes Park Synagogue, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Date(s):
- 1844/1996
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 2.5 linear metres (34 volumes or files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Cartographic material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes constitutional records, council minutes, membership records, finance records, annual reports, orders of service, marriage registers, deeds and plans, event files, and photographs.
- Archival history:
- Held by creating organisation/individual until gifted to Tyne and Wear Archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Also known as the Old Hebrew Congregation, or United Hebrew Congregation following the amalgamation of the original Temple Street Synagogue with the Charlotte Square Synagogue (which had broken away from it in 1867) in 1879. The new synagogue was opened in 1880 and extended in the 1920s. The congregation became part of the new United Hebrew Congregation in 1972 but the synagogue remained open until 1978.
- Access points: locations:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Jewish daily life and religious practices
- Synagogues
- Access, restrictions:
- Private legal status. Depositor's consent is required for access to these records.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Tyne and Wear Archives
- Author of the description:
- Daniel Stoker; North East Museums; 2025
