Metadata: Sunderland Beth Hamedrash
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.SU75
- Title:
- Sunderland Beth Hamedrash
- Title (official language):
- Sunderland Beth Hamedrash
- Creator/accumulator:
- Sunderland Beth Hamedrash
- Date(s):
- 1899/1984
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 12 items
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- This collection includes minutes, rules, annual balance sheets and accounts, marriage registers, index of marriages, voting papers and lists, and photographs.
- Archival history:
- Held by creating organisation/individual until gifted to Tyne and Wear Archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Beth Hamedrash was founded in Villiers Street in 1891 by newer immigrants who were more orthodox in their practices than the existing Hebrew Congregation, and split off from it. It later moved to Mowbray Road and is also known as Mowbray Road Synagogue. It closed in December 1984 and became incorporated with the Sunderland Hebrew Congregation (see C.SU74).
- Access points: locations:
- Sunderland
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Jewish daily life and religious practices
- Synagogues
- Yerusha Network member:
- Tyne and Wear Archives
- Author of the description:
- Daniel Stoker; North East Museums; 2025
