Metadata: South Shields Hebrew Congregation
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.SS35
- Title:
- South Shields Hebrew Congregation
- Title (official language):
- South Shields Hebrew Congregation
- Creator/accumulator:
- South Shields Hebrew Congregation
- Date(s):
- 1890/1997
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 14 items
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- This collection includes an agreement to form the congregation, an order of service, annual accounts, photographs of the synagogue, financial papers, and a register of members.
- Archival history:
- Held by creating organisation/individual until gifted to Tyne and Wear Archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The first Jewish families appear to have arrived in South Shields in the 1840s but had no religious services of their own until about 1880 when services were held in a private house. Various halls were then used as temporary synagogues until a house in Charlotte Square was purchased in 1897. In the early 1900s there was a split in the community but this was resolved and in 1914 new premises were purchased in Ogle Terrace (later renamed Beach Road). These were demolished in 1932 and a new synagogue and communal hall built. By the late 20th century the congregation had dwindled to just a few families, and the synagogue closed in 1994.
- Access points: locations:
- South Shields
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Synagogues
- Yerusha Network member:
- Tyne and Wear Archives
- Author of the description:
- Daniel Stoker; North East Museums; 2025
